Copying others can greatly improve individual fitness and is fundamental for the
organisation of societies. Yet in some situations it is better to ignore social information and …

Urbanization may lead to changes in assemblage and result in shifts in trait distribution from
natural habitats to highly urbanized habitats. The shift in functional traits can affect …

In collective decision making, groups collate social information to inform their decisions.
Indeed, societies can gather more information than individuals—so social information can …

Collective foraging confers benefits in terms of reduced predation risk and access to social
information, but it heightens local competition when resources are limited. In social insects …

The coordination of group behavior in the social insects is representative of a broader
phenomenon in nature, emergent biological complexity. In such systems, it is believed that …

An insect society needs to share information about important resources in order to
collectively exploit them. This task poses a dilemma if the colony must consider multiple …