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Deborah M. Gordon is a Professor in the Department of Biology at Stanford University. She studies how ant colonies function without central control through networks of simple interactions, focusing on how these networks evolve in changing environments. Gordon received her PhD in Zoology from Duke University and has held postdoctoral research positions at the Harvard Society Fellows and Oxford University before joining the Stanford faculty in 1991. Her projects include a long-term study of population dynamics in harvester ant colonies in Arizona, examination of invasive Argentine ants in northern California, and research on arboreal ant trail networks and ant-plant mutualisms in Central America.
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