Self-Organization in Social Insects

Eric Bonabeau, Guy Theraulza, Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Serge Aron and Scott Camazine

Working Papers from Santa Fe Institute

Abstract: Self-organization was originally introduced in the context of physics and chemistry to describe how microscopic processes give rise to macroscopic structures in out-of-equilibrium systems. Recent research, that extends this concept to ethology, suggests that it provides a concise description of a wide rage of collective phenomena in animals, especially in social insects. This description does not rely on individual complexity to account for complex spatiotemporal features which emerge at the colony level, but rather assumes that interactions among simple individuals can produce highly structured collective behaviors.

Keywords: Social insects; self-organization; proximate mechanisms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997-04
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