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World Service,11 Sep 1995,28 mins

Ants in the city

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The rules that run colonies of ants and what they can teach us about cities. How ant behaviour might help humans who live in densely populated areas. Also in the programme, a virus that is good for us when we are in the womb, unexpected flips in deep-water ocean circulation in the deep Mediterranean and the evolutionary origins of frogs in the early Jurassic swamps. Presenter: Andrew Luck-Baker.

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