<story><title>The Simple Algorithm That Ants Use to Build Bridges (2018)</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-simple-algorithm-that-ants-use-to-build-bridges-20180226/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wonderwonder</author><text>Always found colony based insects but especially ants fascinating. 
Its as if the ant is not the organism but rather the colony is.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jsenn</author><text>Deborah Gordon (ant biologist) makes this argument in her book Ant Encounters. Because the ants in a colony are all sisters, the unit of reproduction is actually the colony rather than the individual ant. Great book!</text></comment>
<story><title>The Simple Algorithm That Ants Use to Build Bridges (2018)</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-simple-algorithm-that-ants-use-to-build-bridges-20180226/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wonderwonder</author><text>Always found colony based insects but especially ants fascinating. 
Its as if the ant is not the organism but rather the colony is.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>senthil_rajasek</author><text>If you find Ants interesting you would probably like E.O. Wilson&amp;#x27;s works. That&amp;#x27;s all he did his entire life, study ants.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Journey_to_the_Ants&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Journey_to_the_Ants&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>