petersuber on Nostr: I love this. Researchers presented ants and humans with the same geometric problem ...

I love this. Researchers presented ants and humans with the same geometric problem — moving an odd-shaped object through two doorways, scaled to their respective sizes. In some circumstances the ants cooperated better than the humans, for example when the humans weren't allowed to talk.

* summary
https://phys.org/news/2024-12-ants-superior-humans-group-problem.html

* primary source
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2414274121

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