The Surprising Role of Randomness in Ant Behavior | The difference in humans and ants |

[@boudiccaleduckel4680]

I love this!! Here I thought bees, ants, and termites were top-down controlled. This gives hope for humanity with the ruling class evolving us little by little into a complete top-down controlled species, they use a bee hive through ancient times as a perfect society. Plato even talked about this. But if nature doesn't work like this, then it's doubtful the efforts of the ruling class will ever come to fruition. This gives me hope. How do you get the book?

[@thormay]

Bounded randomness seems to be a key adaptive mechanism right through nature, and for that matter in human affairs. Look at language change for example. Or, at a crude political and economic level, look at why rigidly controlled societies and companies ultimately either wither or have to steal ideas to survive ....

[@thisishcd]

Love it. Thanks so much for sharing!

[@robertarvanitis8852]

Adaptive systems need both replication and variation. Jacques Monod wrote about this in “Chance and Necessity” (1970). With sexual reproduction females have the greater investment, so stress fidelity. Female intelligence is tight to mean. Males provide volatility; more geniuses, more not so. In hard times, generations adapt quickly as strong males mate more often. In good times, the clever males have the reproductive advantage.

[@thisishcd]

This is great! Will check these out - Gerry