Decision Making in Bee Swarms Mimic Neurons in Human Brains
Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 14:31
in Biology & Nature
Swarms of bees and brain neurons make decisions using strikingly similar mechanisms, reports a new study in the journal Science (Dec. 9, 2011), which finds scout bees use inhibitory stop signals to inhibit the "waggle dances" produced by bees advertising competing homes for the swarm.