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Optimisation in a natural system: Argentine ants solve the Towers of Hanoi
Chris R. Reid, David J. T. Sumpter, Madeleine Beekman
Journal of Experimental Biology 2011 214: 50-58; doi: 10.1242/jeb.048173
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vol. 214 no. 1, 50-58

DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.048173
PubMed 
21147968

Published By 
The Company of Biologists Ltd
Print ISSN 
0022-0949
Online ISSN 
1477-9145
History 
  • Accepted October 2, 2010
  • Published online December 8, 2010.
Copyright & Usage 
© 2011.


Author Information

  1. Chris R. Reid1,*,
  2. David J. T. Sumpter2 and
  3. Madeleine Beekman1
  1. 1Behaviour and Genetics of Social Insects Laboratory and Centre for Mathematical Biology, School of Biological Sciences A12, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
  2. 2Mathematics Department, Uppsala University, Box 480, 751 06 Uppsala, Sweden
  1. ↵* Author for correspondence (christopher.reid{at}sydney.edu.au)
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Optimisation in a natural system: Argentine ants solve the Towers of Hanoi
Chris R. Reid, David J. T. Sumpter, Madeleine Beekman
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