Add to ORKGSurnrnary.- The potentialusefulnessof applicationsof twophysicalconceptsto evolutionarybiologywas evaluatedon ant societies.The optimizationprincipIe, whichpredictsa moreefficientuseof energyby moresophisticatedsocieties,was contrastedto that of irreversiblethermodynamics,predicting an increasein orderlinessandthus an increasein energyconsumptionper unit of biomass.Our resultsonoxygenconsumptionmeasurementsofantcoloniesshoweda complexand non-linearelationshipbetweencolonysizeandenergyconsumptionper unitmass, that can be explainedby irreversiblethermodynamicsand catastrophetheory, whereasan additionalexponentialinverse relationshipmay be explainedby optimization'principles.Thus,socialcomplexityis relatedto energyconsumptionin a disconti...
Life is the harnessing of chemical energy in such away that the energy-harnessing device makes a cop...
Life is the harnessing of chemical energy in such away that the energy-harnessing device makes a cop...
Across contemporary and historical human groups, there is variation in how cultures interact with th...
Herbert Spencer is usually thought to use a biological metaphor for understanding social-evolutionar...
It is suggested that natural selection and free energy minimization are the same phenomena. Such a s...
Thirty years ago, the systems ecologist Howard T. Odum introduced the concept of transformity, which...
Understanding the ecology and evolution of insect societies requires greater knowledge of how social...
Abstract - Various biologically inspired approaches to problem solving using a social metaphor have ...
How societies are energized is significant for their organization. The present, highly mobile and gl...
In this article, energy trophallaxis, i.e., distributed autonomous energy management methodology ins...
The biological world as we see it today has a part-whole hierarchical structure. For example, eusoci...
International audienceIndividual-as-maximizing agent analogies result in a simple understanding of t...
Combines for the first time theories of general physics and applies them to social sciencesOffers a ...
Evolution, broadly construed, has become a powerful unifying concept in much of science – not only i...
This thesis aims at establishing the basis for a statistical physics theory of major evolutionary tr...
Life is the harnessing of chemical energy in such away that the energy-harnessing device makes a cop...
Life is the harnessing of chemical energy in such away that the energy-harnessing device makes a cop...
Across contemporary and historical human groups, there is variation in how cultures interact with th...
Herbert Spencer is usually thought to use a biological metaphor for understanding social-evolutionar...
It is suggested that natural selection and free energy minimization are the same phenomena. Such a s...
Thirty years ago, the systems ecologist Howard T. Odum introduced the concept of transformity, which...
Understanding the ecology and evolution of insect societies requires greater knowledge of how social...
Abstract - Various biologically inspired approaches to problem solving using a social metaphor have ...
How societies are energized is significant for their organization. The present, highly mobile and gl...
In this article, energy trophallaxis, i.e., distributed autonomous energy management methodology ins...
The biological world as we see it today has a part-whole hierarchical structure. For example, eusoci...
International audienceIndividual-as-maximizing agent analogies result in a simple understanding of t...
Combines for the first time theories of general physics and applies them to social sciencesOffers a ...
Evolution, broadly construed, has become a powerful unifying concept in much of science – not only i...
This thesis aims at establishing the basis for a statistical physics theory of major evolutionary tr...
Life is the harnessing of chemical energy in such away that the energy-harnessing device makes a cop...
Life is the harnessing of chemical energy in such away that the energy-harnessing device makes a cop...
Across contemporary and historical human groups, there is variation in how cultures interact with th...