collective behavior
Americannoun
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Thinking about the collective behavior of a whole system rather than individual particles is common in other areas of physics and even everyday life.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 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
The team found that the consistency of mucus profoundly affects the collective behavior of bacteria.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2023
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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