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Corina Tarnita and the Deep Mathematics of Social Insects

The Joy of x

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Is There a Termite Mound?

i wanted to underte red under the mound, you mean, just, its a known fact that under the spot there happens to be a termite mound under and exactly one. Exactly just once. And i ask myself, what would happen if you had all of these mechanisms play out in the same system, but possibly on very different scales? So maybe the termites fight with each other at a 30 meter distance, but plants only facilitate each other on a few centimeters,. I thought that both explanations made a lot of sense.

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