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Ant size

Ants count

But I'd like to describe to you a more subtle kind of diversity and tell you about the ants.

Draw ants

But we know that occasionally ants go astray, and what happens is that, if army ants are wandering around and they get lost, they start to follow a simple rule just do what the ant in front of you does.

One of the reasons I tell you about ants is because of my husband, who is in fact an ant taxonomist and when we got married, he promised to name an ant after me, which he did

Is Edinburgh a horse?

There's no animal that has 0 mass.

The metaphor that I like to use is the metaphor of the circular mill.

4,000 of those ants live exclusively in the forest canopy.

I couldn't thread a needle or see the lice in my hair.

What did he do, sit in an anthill?

Till they reached the Valley of Naml. Said the lady of Naml O Naml, go into your dwellings lest Solomon and his hordes should crush you unawares.

Until when they came to the valley of the ants, a she ant exclaimed, O ants, enter your houses may not Sulaiman and his armies crush you, unknowingly.

till, when they came on the Valley of Ants, an ant said, 'Ants, enter your dwelling places, lest Solomon and his hosts crush you, being unaware!'

Until when they came unto the valley of the ants, an ant said O ants! enter Your habitations lest Sulaiman and his hosts crush you while they perceive not.

Till, when they came to the valley of the ants, one of the ants said O ants! Enter your dwellings, lest Sulaiman (Solomon) and his hosts crush you, while they perceive not.

Until, when they came upon the Valley of Ants, an ant said, O ants! Go into your nests, lest Solomon and his troops crush you without noticing.

(Solomon was once on the move with them) until when they reached a valley of ants one of the ants said O ants, get into your holes, lest Solomon and his hosts crush you (under their feet) without even knowing.

Till, when they reached the Valley of the Ants, an ant exclaimed O ants! Enter your dwellings lest Solomon and his armies crush you, unperceiving.

When they came to the Valley of Ants, an ant said, O ants! Enter your dwellings, lest Solomon and his hosts should trample on you while they are unaware.

and when they came to the Valley of the Ants, an ant said 'Ants, go into your dwellings lest Solomon and his army should, unknowingly, crush you'

Until, when they came upon the valley of the ants, an ant said, O ants, enter your dwellings that you not be crushed by Solomon and his soldiers while they perceive not.

When they arrived in the valley of the ants, one ant said to the others, Enter your dwellings lest you be carelessly crushed by Soloman and his army.

Until when they came to the valley of the Naml, a Namlite said O Naml! enter your houses, (that) Sulaiman and his hosts may not crush you while they do not know.

and when they came to the Valley of the Ants, one ant said, Ants! Go into your dwellings, in case Solomon and his hosts inadvertently crush you.

At length, when they came to a (lowly) valley of ants, one of the ants said O ye ants, get into your habitations, lest Solomon and his hosts crush you (under foot) without knowing it.

They worked like so many ants.

Actually, I'm going to pass over this.

Maybe some ants have figured out interstellar travel of some kind.

We've had two children, August Andrew and Erika and actually, he named ants after them.

I told the story about an ant climbing a blade of grass.

When I was here four years ago,

Let's let random variable Z, capital Z, be the number ants born tomorrow in the universe.

The slaves were working like so many ants.

Now, you do get other animals working for each other too.

That is to say, they specialize with respect to reproduction.

Two.

When we talk about bottom up, decentralized phenomena, the ant colony is the classic metaphor, because, no individual ant knows what it's doing, but collectively ants are able to reach incredibly intelligent decisions.

I want to give you one example.

Now you can flip from yellow side to white side.

What about your mouth?

The children were working like so many ants.

Now, you're probably arguing that there aren't ants on other planets.