PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS OF COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOURAL DYNAMICS IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS: PULLING CHAIN FORMATION IN THE NEST-WEAVING ANT OECOPHYLLA SMARAGDINA.

Physical and biological determinants of collective behavioural dynamics in complex systems: pulling chain formation in the nest-weaving ant Oecophylla smaragdina.

The evolution of nest weaving, the inclusion of larval silk in the nest walls, is considered one of the pinnacles of cooperative behaviour in social insects.Within the four ant genera in which this has evolved, Oecophylla are unique in being the only group that precedes the deposition of larval silk by actively manipulating the leaf substrate to fo

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The use of ethnographic analogies in archaeological reasoning

As a methodological principle analogy is present in all scientific disciplines even though, from a logical standpoint, strictly observed, it does not satisfy the criteria which would qualify it as a reliable means of deduction.The queastion of relevacy of the analogic deduction was teal horse blanket particularly important for archaeology which, st

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