Ants at Work

Ants at Work presents a revolutionary understanding of ant colony organization based on the author's extensive field research.

Gordon demonstrates that ant colonies operate without any central control, with no single ant having power over another, yet they harmoniously perform extremely complex tasks including nest building, navigation, foraging, food storage, and more.

The book reveals how individual ants use simple, local information and pheromone communication to make decisions that generate the sophisticated collective behavior of the entire colony, offering profound insights applicable to understanding how organizations, brains, immune systems, and natural systems organize themselves.