Description: The Rules of the Flock Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Self-Organization and Swarm Structure in Animal Societies Author(s): Helmut Satz Format: Hardback Publisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom Imprint: Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 9780198853398, 978-0198853398 Synopsis 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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Book Title: The Rules of the Flock
Item Height: 222 mm
Item Width: 145 mm
Author: Helmut Satz
Publication Name: The Rules of the Flock: Self-Organization and Swarm Structure in Animal Societies
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Geography & Geosciences, Zoology, Science, Physics
Publication Year: 2020
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 322 g
Number of Pages: 140 Pages
