Group Decision Making in Honey Bee Swarms
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The problem of stKial choice has challenged stKial philosophers and political scientists for centuries. The fundamental decision-making dilemma for groups is how to turn individual preferences for different outcomes into a single choice for the group as a whole. This problem has been studied mainly with respect to human groups, which ha\'e developed a variety of voting procedures to single out one option from a list of possible choices: majority rule, plurality wins, various weighted-voting systems and others. Social choice in animal groups is less well studied, although examples are abundant: A babixm troop must decide where to go following a rest peritxi; an ant colony decides whether or not to attack a neighboring colony.
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