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The Rules of the Flock - Self-Organization and Swarm Structure in Animal Societies (Hardcover)
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The Rules of the Flock - Self-Organization and Swarm Structure in Animal Societies (Hardcover)
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Flocks of birds, schools of fish and swarms of locusts display
amazing forms of collective motion, while huge numbers of glow
worms can emit light signals with almost unbelievable
synchronization. These and many other collective phenomena in
animal societies take place according to laws very similar to those
governing the collective behavior in the inanimate nature, such as
the magnetization of iron and the light radiation of lasers. During
recent years, this has led to the study of swarm behavior as a
challenging new field of science, in which ideas from the physical
world are applied in order to understand the formation and
structure of animal swarms. From these studies, it has become clear
that such collective behavior of animals emerges in a
self-organized way, without any need of overall coordination. In
this book, we present different swarm phenomena of the animal world
and compare them to their counterparts in physics, in a conceptual
and non-technical way, addressed to a general readership.
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