•“I don’t think that the ants are assessing the size
of the colony, but I think that the colony size affects what an
ant experiences, which is different.
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•I don’t
think the ant is keeping track of how big the whole colony is, but
I think that an ant in a big colony has a different experience
from an ant in a small colony.”
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•Deborah Gordon in Emergence, by Stephen Johnson, Simon & Schuster, 2001, p. 76.