In late December 2019, a cluster of cases with 2019 Novel Coronavirus pneumonia (SARS-
CoV-2) in Wuhan, China, aroused worldwide concern. Previous studies have reported …

Active particles contain internal degrees of freedom with the ability to take in and dissipate
energy and, in the process, execute systematic movement. Examples include all living …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

From bird flocks to fish schools, animal groups often seem to react to environmental
perturbations as if of one mind. Most studies in collective animal behavior have aimed to …

Fish travel in schools, birds migrate in flocks, honeybees swarm, and ants build trails. How
and why do these collective behaviors occur? Exploring how coordinated group patterns …

Flocking is a typical example of emergent collective behavior, where interactions between
individuals produce collective patterns on the large scale. Here we show how a quantitative …

Many of life's most fascinating phenomena emerge from interactions among many elements—
many amino acids determine the structure of a single protein, many genes determine the …

Rupert Sheldrake's theory of morphic resonance challenges the fundamental assumptions
of modern science. A world-famous biologist, Sheldrake proposes that all self-organizing …

Social organisation in animals takes many forms. It includes assemblages of territorial
animals, dominance hierarchies and social groups, among other things. The basic tenet that …

Collective decision-making in biological systems requires all individuals in the group to go
through a behavioural change of state. During this transition fast and robust transfer of …