One could say that there an:: three different parts to ''The Myth of the Ant Queen." The first deals with the colony of harvester ants. The second deals with the city of Manchester. The third deals...

One could say that there an:: three different parts to ''The Myth of the Ant Queen." The first deals with the colony of harvester ants. The second deals with the city of Manchester. The third deals with the emergence of complexity theory. In what ways are these three parts connected? Why doesn't Johnson \!lake the connections more explicit-why does he leave them for the reader to work out? Could the structure of his chapter in some way reflect the nattJre of his argument about self-organization?