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Corina Tarnita and the Deep Mathematics of Social Insects

The Joy of x

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The Individual and the Group

E o wilson, also known as ed wilson, was a great scientist who spent his career working on ants and ant societies. He had an when he was a child, and he lost vision in one of his eyes. Ande discovered the tiny, tiny beings, and especially ants. It's really an ant as a member of a colony. That's kind of the amazing thing, isn't it? Well, ye, collectively exactly. They create something, some behavior emerges that is bigger than any one of the parts. The sum is bigger than the parts.

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