Volume 17, Issue 3

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October 2015

Special Issue on Social Biomimicry: Potential and Limitations for Study of Human Organizational Design

Issue Editor:

Jennifer H. Fewell

10 articles in this issue

Social Biomimicry: what do ants and bees tell us about organization in the natural world?
Jennifer H. Fewell
OriginalPaper 10 September 2015 Pages: 207 - 216
When doing nothing is something. How task allocation strategies compromise between flexibility, efficiency, and inactive agents
Daniel Charbonneau
Anna Dornhaus
OriginalPaper 13 August 2015 Pages: 217 - 242
Float like a butterfly, \({\varvec{decide}}\) like a bee
Sven Grüner
Anica Fietz
Antje Jantsch
OriginalPaper 04 August 2015 Pages: 243 - 254
What can ants tell us about collective behavior during a natural catastrophe?
Deby Lee Cassill
Alexander Casella
Michael Lagarde
OriginalPaper 30 January 2015 Pages: 255 - 270
The architecture of subterranean ant nests: beauty and mystery underfoot
Walter R. Tschinkel
OriginalPaper 17 July 2015 Pages: 271 - 291
Samir Okasha, and Ken Binmore (eds): Evolution and rationality: decisions, co-operation and strategic behaviour
Frederick R. Adler
Book Review 24 June 2014 Pages: 293 - 297
Wilson revisits group selection
Benjamin E. Hardisty
Book Review 11 June 2015 Pages: 299 - 302
Jared Diamond: The world until yesterday: what can we learn from traditional societies?
Bruce Winterhalder
Book Review 12 March 2015 Pages: 303 - 307
Equipping non-utilitarian automata with unnatural morality: a review of Joshua Greene’s Moral tribes
Sergio Beraldo
Book Review 20 May 2015 Pages: 309 - 312
Nicholas Wade: A troublesome inheritance: Genes, race and human history
Walter E. Block
Book Review 19 June 2015 Pages: 313 - 319

Volume 17, Issue 3

Social Biomimicry: what do ants and bees tell us about organization in the natural world?

When doing nothing is something. How task allocation strategies compromise between flexibility, efficiency, and inactive agents

Float like a butterfly, \({\varvec{decide}}\) like a bee

What can ants tell us about collective behavior during a natural catastrophe?

The architecture of subterranean ant nests: beauty and mystery underfoot

Samir Okasha, and Ken Binmore (eds): Evolution and rationality: decisions, co-operation and strategic behaviour

Wilson revisits group selection

Jared Diamond: The world until yesterday: what can we learn from traditional societies?

Equipping non-utilitarian automata with unnatural morality: a review of Joshua Greene’s Moral tribes

Nicholas Wade: A troublesome inheritance: Genes, race and human history

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