Overview articles

Dornhaus A 2014 ‘Finding food: foraging affects all aspects of an animal’s life’, in: Yasukawa K ‘Animal Behavior, Volume II: Function and Evolution of Animal Behavior’, Praeger Publishers - pdf - textbook chapter for a general audience on what animals do to find food

Dornhaus A, Powell S 2010 ‘Foraging and defence strategies’ In: ‘Ant Ecology’, Eds. L Lach, C Parr, K Abbott, Ant Ecology, Oxford University Press [invited chapter in edited book] - pdf - edited book chapter reviewing communication/recruitment and defense strategies in ants

Dornhaus A, Powell S, Bengston S 2012 ‘Group size and its effects on collective organization’, Annual Review of Entomology 57: 123-141 - pdf - quantitative review on group sizes in insects, and review on how group size does or does not affect collective behavior

Bengston S, Charbonneau D, Dornhaus A 2021, ‘Temnothorax’ entry for Encyclopedia of Social Insects by Starr (Ed.), Springer - pdf - encyclopedia entry about the ant genus ‘Temnothorax’

Dornhaus A, Franks NR 2008 'Individual and collective cognition in ants and other insects (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)' Myrmecol News 11: 215-226 - pdf - review of cognitive/information processing/decision-making skills in social insects; also see next entry and lectures on youtube on this topic

Dornhaus A, in press ‘Aliens Are Likely to Be Smart But Not “Intelligent”: What Evolution of Cognition on Earth Tells Us about Extraterrestrial Intelligence’, In: Vakoch D, editor. Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Cognition and Communication in the Universe. Oxford University Press - pdf - invited book chapter; discussion of how many cognitive skills are common among organisms on Earth, thus presumably ‘easy’ to evolve; but human-level self-reflection/language/altruism is unique, thus possibly ‘hard’ to evolve or not under natural selection at all