Ants ordering ants to feed.

• Autores: David Waxman
• Localización: Trends in ecology and evolution, ISSN 0169-5347, Vol. 17, Nº 3, 2002, pág. 103
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In a recent paper, M. Beekman and co-workers carried out experimental and theoretical investigations into the behaviour of a biological system consisting of a colony of Pharaoh's ants. By manipulating the colony, the foraging behaviour of the ants was, remarkably, shown to be capable of undergoing a transition between a disordered and an ordered state that was directly analogous to a phase transition in a physical system.