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A model of collective nectar source selection by honey bees : self-organization through simple rules
Scott Camazine,James Sneyd +1 more
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In this article, the authors present a model that describes the honey bee colony's decision-making process, which consists of a system of non-linear differential equations describing the activity of the foraging bees.About:
This article is published in Journal of Theoretical Biology.The article was published on 1991-04-21. It has received 249 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Nectar source & Honey bee.read more
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Reintroducing group selection to the human behavioral sciences
David Wilson,Elliott Sober +1 more
TL;DR: It is shown that the rejection of group selection was based on a misplaced emphasis on genes as “replicators” which is in fact irrelevant to the question of whether groups can be like individuals in their functional organization, and makes it clear that group selection is an important force to consider in human evolution.
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Models of division of labor in social insects
TL;DR: The models to date have advanced understanding by suggesting possible mechanisms for division of labor and by revealing how individual and colony-level behavior may be related, and so may lead to the development of more powerful and integrative explanatory models.
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Self-organization in social insects.
TL;DR: This description does not rely on individual complexity to account for complex spatiotemporal features that emerge at the colony level, but rather assumes that intractions among simple individuals can produce highly structured collective behaviours.
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Collective decision-making in honey bees: how colonies choose among nectar sources
TL;DR: It is suggested that honey bee colonies possess decentralized decision-making because it combines effectiveness with simplicity of communication and computation within a colony.
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The biological principles of swarm intelligence
TL;DR: The underlying mechanisms of complex collective behaviors of social insects, from the concept of stigmergy to the theory of self-organization in biological systems, are described and four functions that emerge at the level of the colony and that organize its global behavior are proposed.
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The Insect Societies
TL;DR: In this article, a definitive study of the social structure and symbiotic relationships of termites, social wasps, bees, and ants was conducted. But the authors focused on the relationship between ants and termites.
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La reconstruction du nid et les coordinations interindividuelles chezBellicositermes natalensis etCubitermes sp. la théorie de la stigmergie: Essai d'interprétation du comportement des termites constructeurs
TL;DR: A reconstruction of Cubi termes natalensis, a review of the building blocks of the Cuban legal system, and some of the strategies used to achieve this goal are described.
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Dynamic pattern generation in behavioral and neural systems
Gregor Schöner,J. A. S. Kelso +1 more
TL;DR: The central mathematical concepts of self-organization in nonequilibrium systems are used to show how a large number of empirically observed features of temporal patterns can be mapped onto simple low-dimensional dynamical laws that are derivable from lower levels of description.
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The self-organizing exploratory pattern of the argentine ant
TL;DR: A minimal model shows how the exploratory pattern may be generated by the individual workers' simple trail-laying and -following behavior, illustrating how complex collective structures in insect colonies may be based on self-organization.
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Self-organized Shortcuts in the Argentine Ant
TL;DR: Les fourmis I. humilis choisissent le chemin le plus court pour aller de la colonie au lieu d'approvisionnement.