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212 - Deborah Gordon: Ants, Myrmecology, and Collective Behavior

212 - Deborah Gordon: Ants, Myrmecology, and Collective Behavior

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Deborah Gordon is Professor of Biology at Stanford University.
She is a myrmecologist—an entomologist who studies ants—focusing
on how complex behavior emerges from ant colonies, which have no
central control. In this episode, Deborah and Robinson discuss
some of the distinctive features of ants, how pheromones help to
determine their behavior, examples of fascinating ant species,
collective ant behavior, and the life cycle of an ant colony. For
more of Deborah’s work on collective behavior, check out her book
The Ecology of Collective Behavior (Princeton, 2023).

The Gordon Lab: https://web.stanford.edu/~dmgordon/

Ants at Work: https://a.co/d/7bpokYU

The Ecology of Collective Behavior: https://a.co/d/1bBT1h7

OUTLINE

00:00 Introduction

02:33 Ants and Embryology

05:29 General Features of Ants

13:14 Some Fascinating Ant Species

28:20 Pheromones and Ant Behavior

38:17 Ant Slavery

41:30 Collective Ant Behavior

47:04 A Colony’s Life Cycle

59:01 Revisiting Embryology

Robinson’s Website: http://robinsonerhardt.com

Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of
mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations
with philosophers, scientists, and everyone in-between.