collective behavior
Americannoun
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Scientists have long suggested that avalanches could explain the collective behavior of countless small flares on the Sun and other stars.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 21, 2026
This collective behavior allows the whole to exceed the sum of its parts and better respond to threats and challenges.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 3, 2024
“When it comes to our collective behavior, it seems like we have lost any sense of public conversation about the moral good,” she said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2024
Characteristics "emerge" from the collective behavior of the whole system, not from the behavior of its individual components.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2023
It is in our collective behavior that we are most mysterious.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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