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Met een stoffige graafmachine, een handvol Japanse markeerstiften en een paar studenten, diept Deborah Gordon mierenkolonies op in de woestijn van Arizona, op zoek naar manieren om complexe systemen te begrijpen.

Over the course of years spent sucking insects from their nests, color-coding their abdomens with paint pens, and monitoring the movements of individual ants within colonies, Deborah Gordon has made surprising discoveries about the evolution of complex systems. Full bio »

Translated into Dutch by Els De Keyser
Reviewed by Rik Delaet
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