How Animals Communicate via Pheromones

jonathansizz · on March 13, 2015

I'd recommend an American Scientist subscription to everyone with an interest in science and engineering.

It occupies a kind of middle ground by being both engagingly written and substantive in content: not dry like Nature or Science, but not simplistic and sensationalist like Discover or Scientific American.

wppick · on March 13, 2015

Coming from a software engineer paradigm I find stuff like this really interesting. I think the worlds of biology and software should move closer together. Learning the basics about genetics and complexity theory in animals has made me consider how infantile our software is compared to existing natural systems.

IndianAstronaut · on March 13, 2015

There are a few interesting optimization algorithms, metaheuristic algorithms, which often use animal behavior and signaling as a basis.

Seeing posts like this inspires me to pursue some pheromone research I used to do and translate that into an algorithm.