Knowledgeable individuals lead collective decisions in ants
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Knowledgeable individuals lead collective decisions in ants.
Self-organisation underlies many collective processes in large animal groups, where coordinated patterns and activities emerge at the group level from local interactions among its members. Although the importance of key individuals acting as effective leaders has recently been recognised in certain collective processes, it is widely believed that self-organised decisions are evenly shared among...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Biology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1477-9145,0022-0949
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.059188