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| Tango01 | 24 Aug 2018 10:07 p.m. PST |
….Form Societies
"Ants can do pretty amazing things when they work together, like building elaborate nests and even creating bridges from their bodies. One team of scientists wanted to know how these social insects figure out how to take on their various roles within a colony.
Given that "survival of the fittest" is how we think of evolution, it can seem a little strange that some creatures (like ants and humans) thrive in groups. Hoping to understand this, researchers led by Yuko Ulrich from The Rockefeller University studied behavior in increasingly large groups of ants to learn how division of labor emerges. Eventually, studies like these could even help us understand our own human behavior…."
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ZULUPAUL  | 25 Aug 2018 3:04 a.m. PST |
Do they use 3 layer shading? LOL |
| Col Durnford | 25 Aug 2018 6:15 a.m. PST |
Did they make some of the ants red shirts? |
| Tango01 | 25 Aug 2018 12:55 p.m. PST |
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| 14Bore | 25 Aug 2018 1:05 p.m. PST |
I have hit bugs with my paint if I catch them while painting |
| Andrew Walters | 26 Aug 2018 8:36 p.m. PST |
Have we not learned from the Sneetches? |
| Gunfreak | 27 Aug 2018 1:38 a.m. PST |
When my wife did her biology studies, they put paint dots on water striders, be she was told the year before, they used tiny colored dots on them, and well they sank, tiny dots were too heavy… |
 StoneMtnMinis | 28 Aug 2018 2:28 p.m. PST |
But, did they get the turnback colors correct? |
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gets his DNA results, and starts thinking about wargaming.