What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as
a group? How do trillions of neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as …

The terms complexity, complex adaptive systems, and sciences of complexity are found
often in recent scientific literature, reflecting the remarkable growth in collaborative …

A scientific tour de force, Deborah Gordon's" Ants at Work" takes us to the amazing world of
an ant society and reveals a new and original understanding of how these tiny animals get …

The importance of complexity is well-captured by Hawking's comment:" Complexity is the
science of the 21st century". From the movement of flocks of birds to the Internet …

This book explores the exciting new field of complexity. It features in-depth coverage of
important theoretical areas, including fractals, chaos, nonlinear dynamics, artificial life, and …

One of the greatest discoveries of recent times is that the complex patterns we find in life are
often produced when all of the individuals in a group follow the same simple rule. This …

The standard assumptions that underlie many conceptual and quantitative frameworks do
not hold for many complex physical, biological, and social systems. Complex systems …

The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of The Ants render the extraordinary lives of the social
insects in this visually spectacular volume. The Superorganism promises to be one of the …

Insect societies–colonies of ants, bees, wasps and termites–vary enormously in their social
complexity. Social complexity is a broadly used term that encompasses many individual and …

In a rented convent in Santa Fe, a revolution has been brewing. The activists are not
anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics such as Murray Gell-Mann …