Many bacteria use a cell-cell communication system called quorum sensing to coordinate
population density-dependent changes in behavior. Quorum sensing involves production of …

The remarkable collective action of organisms such as swarming ants, schooling fish and
flocking birds has long captivated the attention of artists, naturalists, philosophers and …

Fish travel in schools, birds migrate in flocks, honeybees swarm, and ants build trails. How
and why do these collective behaviors occur? Exploring how coordinated group patterns …

Since the publication of our first text on social cognition, a lot has changed for us personally
(children come and gone, grandchildren have arrived, new jobs, new houses) and …

In recent years, the concept of self-organization has been used to understand collective
behaviour of animals. The central tenet of self-organization is that simple repeated …

Throughout their lives animals must complete many tasks, including finding food, avoiding
predators, attracting mates, and navigating through a complex and dynamic environment …

Individual animals routinely face decisions that are crucial to their fitness. In social species,
however, many of these decisions need to be made jointly with other group members …

Electronic media have unlocked a hitherto largely untapped potential for swarm intelligence
(SI; generally, the realisation that group living can facilitate solving cognitive problems that …

Despite the growing interest in collective phenomena such as “swarm intelligence” and
“wisdom of the crowds,” little is known about the mechanisms underlying decision-making in …

The origin of population-scale coordination has puzzled philosophers and scientists for
centuries. Recently, game theory, evolutionary approaches and complex systems science …