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What makes ant colonies robust?
Simplifying Complexity
The Definition of Robustness
The definition of robustness that I like best is the ability to maintain structure or function in the presence of some disturbance. And we say this quality in a lot of complex systems. In the case of the ant colony, if I talk about structure in an ant colony, people probably laugh because we look at an ant colony and it looks terribly disorganized,. But there's a lot of functional robustness in it.
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