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Undergraduate research shows leaderless honeybee organizing

A new finding by an undergraduate scientist and a senior bee researcher gives new insight on the organization of honeybee colonies, which exhibit behavior rivaling human cultures in social complexity. The study reveals that major colony management activities are directed anonymously by hive workers using a nonspecific signal that modulates worker and queen behavior, and may have implications important for understanding other complex phenomena, from brain activity to terrorist networks.

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