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Lesson 2: Minimize the Leader’s Influence on the Group’s Thinking

Lesson 5: Use Quorum Responses for Cohesion, Accuracy, and Speed

Dianna enjoys recognizing and classifying living things that she can pick up, handle, and share with others, which is why she was drawn to fungi. Alvaro Jamarillo also shares Dianna’s desire to recognize and classify living things—but he is driven to classify creatures that are mobile, colorful, and elusive. Today, he is a professional birder.

Se todos os espécimes só cuidassem de si, grande parte morreria cedo demais.

The experiment was elegant in its simplicity. Using a toy lion and a toy zebra, Barrett asked each child, “When the lion sees the zebra, what does the lion want to do?” The results were surprising: 75 percent of the three-year-olds in both groups answered with some variation of “The lion wants to chase/bite/kill the zebra.” (It must be remembered t

How might communal and relational commitments change that view? What if the paradigm for curiosity were the butterfly conservationists who are in fact deeply involved in cultivating—and thereby understanding—the ecological conditions that sustain butterfly populations?

But the gazelle who has just spotted the clawed creature does not quietly blend into the bunch. She breaks into a strange run punctuated by abrupt jumps into the air. Her behavior alerts her herd-mates to the prowling cat. One after another, they join the running and jumping. The leopard, thrown off by the commotion, eventually gives up and walks a

The hunter is always slightly smarter, but the prey is always wising up. In evolutionary theory, the tension between predator and prey is one of the great engines that has driven the creation of intelligence itself, each side successively and ceaselessly responding to the other.

“From the mycelial ‘wood wide web’ to smart slime molds and political honeybees, science is demonstrating that humans don’t monopolize language or intelligence.”