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Corina Tarnita and the Deep Mathematics of Social Insects

The Joy of x

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Social Insects - What I Learned From Yo Wong

The pattern is similar to markets in a big city, where everyone has to walk one back. The competition for resources is what is driving the self organization of the mounds. It's like a if you were to draw the edges of the territories, that's the territory in which the termites goout to forage for their resources. They would create this honeycomb a pattern.

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