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...students who play SimAnt, a computer simulation created by will Wright and Justin McCormick, it's people who are the enemy. Participants fight for territory as members of an ambitious colony of black ants...

Author: By Laura M. Murray, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: E.O. Wilson Inspires SimAnt | 2/29/1992 | See Source »

...Wright says he has sold over 50,000 copies of SimAnt, which was released by the Maxis software company last November as the successor to best-selling SimCity and SimEarth...

Author: By Laura M. Murray, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: E.O. Wilson Inspires SimAnt | 2/29/1992 | See Source »

...Wright says he and McCormick drew most of the background for the game from The Ants, a Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Baird Professor of Science E.O. Wilson and Agassiz Professor Bert Holldobler...

Author: By Laura M. Murray, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: E.O. Wilson Inspires SimAnt | 2/29/1992 | See Source »

Wilson and Wright attribute their attraction to ants to the insects' ability to work as a group. Wilson compares the organization of ant colonies to the human brain...

Author: By Laura M. Murray, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: E.O. Wilson Inspires SimAnt | 2/29/1992 | See Source »

...Wright says that ants' property of collective intelligence has made them the "mascots" of artificial life, a branch of computer science which simulates biological systems. Wright drew on artificial life concepts and techniques when developing SimAnt...

Author: By Laura M. Murray, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: E.O. Wilson Inspires SimAnt | 2/29/1992 | See Source »

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