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11/24/2007: "Fascism helps animal species thrive"

The reason may be that the ants have had a lot more time to adapt to living in big groups. .We haven.t evolved in the societies we currently live in,. Dr. Couzin said.

By studying army ants -- as well as birds, fish, locusts and other swarming animals -- Dr. Couzin and his colleagues are starting to discover simple rules that allow swarms to work so well. Those rules allow thousands of relatively simple animals to form a collective brain able to make decisions and move like a single organism.

Deciphering those rules is a big challenge, however, because the behavior of swarms emerges unpredictably from the actions of thousands or millions of individuals.

[ We can learn from nature! ]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/13/science/13traff.html?_r=1&ex=1352696400&en=693ae1e813eb2a6b&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin