Thought Transference (or What ?) in Birds
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Social interactions among individual organisms give rise to patterns and structure at higher levels of organization.
“The characteristic feature of all of these systems is that social interactions among the individual organisms give rise to patterns and structure at higher levels of organization”
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- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 1932-02-20
- Volume
- 129
- Issue
- 3251
- Pages
- 263-263
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
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- W605139033
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- 3.71
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- en
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- Nature (publishedVersion)
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- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Avian ecology and behavior
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Developmental Biology › Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Keywords
- telepathy, collective behavior, rook, dunlin, terns, animal communication, animal behavior
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