Float like a butterfly, $${\varvec{decide}}$$ d e c i d e like a bee

Sven Grüner (), Anica Fietz () and Antje Jantsch
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Journal of Bioeconomics, 2015, vol. 17, issue 3, 243-254

Abstract: The decision-making behavior of individuals is limited by a lack of information and a limited capacity to process information. When seeking locations to construct a hive, the honeybee Apis mellifera collectively succeeds at overcoming these individual limitations and, thus, arrives at (nearly) optimal decisions. This article examines the behaviors and coordination mechanisms that have reinforced this trait in the course of evolution. We consider what lessons might be learned concerning human behavior and how better decisions can be made. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015

Keywords: Honeybee Apis mellifera; Bounded rationality; Collective intelligence/group intelligence; Superorganism; Apis oeconomicus; D03; D70 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/s10818-015-9204-5

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