March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
13h 46m
English
Many species perform complex tasks when working as a group, even though each member of the group seemingly exhibits little intelligence. For example, an ant colony is quite effective at finding the shortest path between its nest and some source of food, while an individual ant has no ability to accomplish this task. As another example, many of us have been fascinated watching a flock of birds turn and maneuver as a single unit, while there is no apparent master plan guiding their behavior. Schools of fish likewise move in unison. Swarm intelligence is intelligent collective behavior that emerges when some group ...
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