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Deborah Gordon on Ant Colonies as Distributed Computers

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The Ecology of Collective Behavior in Ants

I want to loop these ideas back into the first half of the conversation. As you wrote for PLOS biology, the ecology of collective behavior. You identify a couple of different ecological constraints that determine the algorithms used by different ant colonies. It's because ants are so diverse that we have an opportunity looking at ants to see how collective behavior evolves in different conditions.

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