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Corina Tarnita and the Deep Mathematics of Social Insects

The Joy of x

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Termite Mounds - What Are They Doing?

The mathus is the intera structure for drawing out the surprising implications of what happens in these ego systems. In our case, we had the spots of vegetation, but they were created by termite mounds underlying those spots. So it's the exact same spots, they look like spots of vegetation. Everything looks like the peperoni piza. But if the big spots of vegetation are driven entirely by plants interacting with each other facilitation competition, then that's a system that's in danger of collapse to desert. And so when we made that model that was coupling these different mechanisms, the prediction was that actually, if the big spot of vegetation that you see are ah created by term

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