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To establish a complex-systems framework explaining how ant colonies achieve large-scale coordination, resource allocation, and survival in the absence of centralized control.

August 14, 2026Open Access

CosmosBeating • Formic Geometry and Topology — Paper IV: Interface and Symbiosis

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To establish a complex-systems framework explaining how ant colonies achieve large-scale coordination, resource allocation, and survival in the absence of centralized control.
Synthesized principles of complex systems, stigmergic coordination models, and distributed computing alongside empirical behavioral ecology literature on ant colonies.
Evaluated decentralized signal-response architectures, chemical communication dynamics, and reproductive strategies across colony lifecycles.
Colony-level coordination emerges from simple individual behaviors guided by local pheromone concentrations, interaction rates, and structural feedback loops.
High individual queen mortality rates (>99% failure documented in several species) function as an adaptive population-level bet that secures colony-level survival.
Nestmate recognition, interspecies mutualism, and social parasitism share a common chemical signal-response architecture rather than requiring distinct mechanisms.

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Theoretical analysis demonstrates emergent self-organization and decentralized coordination in ant colonies, highlighting principles shared with distributed computing.

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

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7ee587b70b84ec8b91470d https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21905647

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Theoretical analysis demonstrates emergent self-organization and decentralized coordination in ant colonies, highlighting principles shared with distributed computing.

CosmosBeating • Formic Geometry and Topology — Paper IV: Interface and Symbiosis

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