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The Rules of the Flock : Self-Organization and Swarm Structure in Animal Societies by Helmut Satz is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 inanimate nature, such as the magnetization of iron and 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. It has thus become clear that the collective behavior of animal swarms emerges in a self-organized way, without the need of any overall director. In this book, different swarm phenomena of the animal world are presented and compared with their counterparts in physics, in a conceptual and non-technical way, addressed to a general readership.

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Author

Helmut Satz

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780192595027

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Biophysics, Stem