Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Super-organism


   






Today I've done my presentation about super-organism. I hope you have liked it!

I put links to discover a little bit more of this amazing world.

Books from Bernard Werber
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1688655.La_Trilogie_des_Fourmis






























 

Documentaries on YouTube

Wild City Of Ants
  Planet Ant - Life Inside The Colony
Insect Wars - National Geographic
Lord of the Ants
  

A lot beautiful pictures from Alexander


Proatta butteli is a polygynous species. Nests typically contain numerous fertile queens.

Danum Valley Field Centre, Sabah Borneo  












Continue to the Portofolio from Alexander :)

Enjoy and see you soon,
Eric 

3 comments:

  1. This was an interesting interview. I did not know that there were so many different kinds of ants. It is both impressive and frightening. I will try to read the book from Bernard Weber, but I should read other books before.

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  2. I found your presentation very interesting, it has tackled some points I wasn't aware of. It's amazing to see how ants behave and how it creates a coherent system and a hierarchy which allow them to be more productive!
    Keep up the good work :p

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  3. I really liked your presentation.
    However I think ants are but a very specific example of super organism, which is a very wide and interesting topic. It's intrinsically linked to a concept called "emergence phenomenon" which isn't even limited to biology : it also appears in many fields, especially computer science, with genetics algorithms and AI as well.
    It's truly fascinating how the human mind manages to find inspiration from watching the real world (eg ants), and use it to deal with very abstract problems.

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