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World Service,18 Jun 2003,22 mins

The lives of ants

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Could army ants teach us how to run our congested roads and cities? The programme explores how ants manage to live successfully without a central control system. Learning about ants could also help us interpret important commercial medical data and even help us to understand how the human brain works. Presented by Peter Evans.

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