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SUBMITTER: Christensen K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4277088 | biostudies-other | 2015 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Christensen Kim K Papavassiliou Dario D de Figueiredo Alexandre A Franks Nigel R NR Sendova-Franks Ana B AB
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface 20150101 102
Prediction for social systems is a major challenge. Universality at the social level has inspired a unified theory for urban living but individual variation makes predicting relationships within societies difficult. Here, we show that in ant societies individual average speed is higher when event duration is longer. Expressed as a single scaling function, this relationship is universal because for any event duration an ant, on average, moves at the corresponding average speed except for a short ...[more]