Behavior Research

Behavior research

Behavior is what makes living things more interesting than rocks, chemicals, and pretty much everything else in the universe. Our work is inspired by ants and the central role of self-organization at all levels of biology. Current research in behavior includes work by mathematics graduate student Patrick Talley to understand the interaction between ants in the genus Formica with their fiendish social parasites from the closely related genus Polyergus. See selected behavior papers here