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New York Times - Scientist at work: Anna Dornhaus, Published: April 27, 2009
"To Fathom a Colony’s Talk and Toil, Studying Insects One by One"

Arizona Daily Star - Published December 1st, 2008
"Ants don’t have to be specialists to benefit colony, UA study finds"

Science Daily - Online November 25th, 2008
"Can an ant be employee-of-the-month?"

Quirks and Quarks: CBC Radio show - Aired November 22nd, 2008
"Inefficient ants"

New Scientist - Published November 18th, 2008
"Division of labour may not be the key to ant success"

e! Science News - Online November 18th, 2008
"Are ants that specialize better at their job?"

Scientist at work - article in New York Times 4/27/09
The following mention the Marshall et al. article ‘On optimal decision-making in brains and social insect colonies’:

The Guardian - Published March 9th, 2009
"Six legs good"

Channel 4 - Published February 25th, 2009
"Human brain 'like colony of ants'"

insciences.org - Online February 25th, 2009
"Ants on the brain"

About other work by Anna Dornhaus:

On Dornhaus & Chittka 'Evolutionary origins of bee dances' article:
Science News Online - Online April 3rd, 1999
"Look who's dancing"

On Franks et al. 'Not everything that counts can be counted: Ants use multiple metrics for a single nest trait' article:
New York Times - Published November 22nd, 2005
"Of Evolution, Physics and Butterflies"

Arizona Daily Star - Published December 27th, 2006
"Someone has to feed ants their cockroach hash"