"Each component, the ant, was genetically programmed to do its task. An ant of a certain type would..."
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Drawing on ideas from the nascent sciences of cybernetics, which led to the development of computers, he created a vision of colony behavior as a mechanical process, a "factory constructed inside a fortress." Each component, the ant, was genetically programmed to do its task. An ant of a certain type would perform a certain task over and over, directed by its genes and responding to fixed chemical signals.