From c8871aee7e9601031f95551e34a69c938d650664 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "amacdonald@oreilly.com" Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 07:54:01 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Made changes to preface.asciidoc --- preface.asciidoc | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/preface.asciidoc b/preface.asciidoc index 660b5425..a08d2ff9 100644 --- a/preface.asciidoc +++ b/preface.asciidoc @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ I hope you can help me find and publish the "right answer" by the time this book === Why Are There Bugs On The Cover? -The Leafcutter Ant is a species that exhibits highly complex behavior in a colony super-organism, but each individual ant operates on a set of simple rules driven by social interaction and the exchange of chemical scents (pheromones). Per Wikipedia: "Next to humans, leafcutter ants form the largest and most complex animal societies on Earth". Leafcutter ants don't actually eat leaves, but rather use them to farm a fungus, which is the central food source for the colony. Get that? These ants are farming! +The Leafcutter Ant is a species that exhibits highly complex behavior in a colony super-organism, but each individual ant operates on a set of simple rules driven by social interaction and the exchange of chemical scents (pheromones). Per Wikipedia: "Next to humans, leafcutter ants form the largest and most complex animal societies on Earth." Leafcutter ants don't actually eat leaves, but rather use them to farm a fungus, which is the central food source for the colony. Get that? These ants are farming! While ants form a caste-based society and have a queen for producing offspring, there is no central authority or leader in an ant colony. The highly intelligent and sohpisticated behavior exhibited by a multi-million member colony is an emergent property from the interaction of the individuals in a social network.