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Divided into castes that include workers, soldiers and immature young, ants carry out a wide variety of organized activities. Ordinary garden ants herd aphids, which they milk for their sweet nectar. Some species of ants farm, tending crops of tiny fungi in their underground chambers; others take and keep slaves from rival ant colonies. Species like the driver ants of Africa and the army ants of South America conduct military campaigns with a precision that any general would envy, advancing in columns protected by soldiers over routes carefully scouted by advance parties. Ants are also accomplished architects; African termites...
Raper, born in rural Davidson County, N.C., studied at the University of North Carolina under John Couch, a leading mycologist, and began his own exploration into the sexual development of higher fungi...
...world authority on the reproduction of fungi, Raper came to Harvard in 1954 to instruct a wide range of graduate and undergraduate courses...
...taught Biology 2, "Cellular, Developmental and Functional Biology"; Biology 14, "Genetics"; and Biology 301, "Mycology and Fungal Genetics". His book, "Genetics of Sexuality in Higher Fungi," summarized 20 years of research on the physiology and reproduction of Schizophyllum, a mushroom-like fungus...
...work with fungi took him to Cologne, Germany in 1960 where he studied as both a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar. In 1967 he was visiting professor of Genetics at Hebrew University in Israel...