Information ow, opinion polling and collective intelligence in house-hunting social insects
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Nigel R. Franks, Stephen C. Pratt, Eamonn B. Mallon, Nicholas F. Britton and David J. T. Sumpter School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 IUG, UK Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA Experimental Ecology, ETH Zurich, ETH Zentrum NW, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland Centre for Mathematical Biology, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK Centre for Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, 24–29 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LB, UK
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Information flow, opinion polling and collective intelligence in house-hunting social insects.
The sharing and collective processing of information by certain insect societies is one of the reasons that they warrant the superlative epithet 'super-organisms' (Franks 1989, Am. Sci. 77, 138-145). We describe a detailed experimental and mathematical analysis of information exchange and decision-making in, arguably, the most difficult collective choices that social insects face: namely, house...
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