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Hi All,
In the stretch of a topic post, the January 6th Science Mag has a fascinating article about decision making in honey bees. It turns out that hive driven decisions are horribly noisy. But that a decisive decision emerges from some scout bees inhibiting the signals of other scout bees. The effect mimics the sensory refinement of nervous systems with a kind of social "lateral inhibition. It reminds me of advocacy, votes, courts, and facts in human behavior; why decisions always become so decisive.
Stop Signals Provide Cross Inhibition in Collective Decision-Making by Honeybee Swarms
Thomas D. Seeley1,*, P. Kirk Visscher2, Thomas Schlegel3, Patrick M. Hogan4, Nigel R. Franks3,James A. R. Marshall4
It's a fun read.
C
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