The Rules of the Flock

Self-Organization and Swarm Structure in Animal Societies

By: Helmut Satz

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Hardcover | 28 February 2020

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160 Pages

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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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The Rules of the Flock covers an important topic that is now the focus of a great deal of basic and applied research and one that easily catches the imagination of the public. I expect that many people, like me, will read it in one sitting - it is quite difficult to put it down * Raghavendra Gadagkar, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science. *
Swarming is one of the central concepts in the science of complex systems. Anyone with interest in science and without technical background can follow this book * Santo Fortunato, Indiana University, Bloomington. *

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