Download or read book Six Legs Better written by Charlotte Sleigh and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-03-05 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marking the centenary of the coining of "myrmecologyto describe the study of ants, Six Legs Better demonstrates the remarkable historical role played by ants as a node where notions of animal, human, and automaton intersect.