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To model ant colonies as decentralized complex systems and characterize how collective architecture, microclimate control, and resource allocation emerge from local interactions without a central controller.

August 14, 2026Open Access

CosmosBeating • Formic Geometry and Topology — Paper VIII: Architecture and Microclimate

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To model ant colonies as decentralized complex systems and characterize how collective architecture, microclimate control, and resource allocation emerge from local interactions without a central controller.
Applied theoretical frameworks from complex systems, distributed computing, and stigmergy to synthesize published empirical entomological literature.
Formulated testable hypotheses regarding spatial geometry, microclimate thermodynamics, and collective information flows, explicitly distinguishing empirical observations from theoretical proposals.
Demonstrates that complex tunnel excavation, optimal foraging paths, and microclimate homeostasis emerge directly from local chemical gradients, encounter rates, and threshold-based responses without global blueprints.
Identifies that colony survival is achieved through statistical bet-hedging at the population level, accommodating queen nest-founding failure rates exceeding 99%.
Establishes a unified signal-response architecture that mechanistically links nestmate recognition, interspecies mutualism, and social parasitism via chemical mimicry.

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Theoretical synthesis uncovers principles of decentralized self-organization in ant colonies, highlighting parallels with distributed computing and network systems.

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Wai-Hung (Pan) Tam (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7ec71db70b84ec8b913423 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21905922

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Theoretical synthesis uncovers principles of decentralized self-organization in ant colonies, highlighting parallels with distributed computing and network systems.

CosmosBeating • Formic Geometry and Topology — Paper VIII: Architecture and Microclimate

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