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conversations.value: a description for a book titled Honeybee Democracy about Financial, Times with the genre: Science & Math, Biological Sciences
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conversations.value: "The year's most enchanting science book." ---Financial Times
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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about Entomologist, Wilson, Cornell with the genre: Science & Math, Biological Sciences?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'Honeybee Democracy'
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conversations.value: the first two paragraphs for this book
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conversations.value: Honeybee Democracy
  Page 233: Unfortunately, it is difficult to apply the honeybees' lessons about good democratic decision making to groups composed of individuals with strongly conflicting interests. In such adversarial groups, individuals will not behave like scout bees: totally honest and reliably hardworking. They are instead expected to issue lies and act lazily when doing so provides them with benefits even if doing so degrades the group's success. Nevertheless, because many small democratic organizations are composed of people with strongly overlapping interests, I feel the lessons learned from the house-hunting bees have considerable relevance to human affairs.
  Essential, too, has been the close partnerships that I have enjoyed with my collaborators: Madeleine Beekman, the late Roger A. Morse, Kevin Passino, Jürgen Tautz, and Kirk Visscher. Without their enthusiasm in helping push the work forward, the natural history investigations, the agent-based modeling studies, the video analyses, and many of the experimental investigations reported here would not have been accomplished. The warm friendship of these five people has also added immensely to the pleasure of working together to figure out how swarms work.
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conversations.value: I am always appreciative of the financial support received through the years from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, National Geographic Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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