Brilliant because: He reveals the rules of groups

摘要

The shuffle of life-the wheeling of birds, the silver flash of escaping fish-looks mystically organized. Iain Couzin, who models collective behavior in nature, identifies those patterns mathematically. And he's finding patterns that exist across otherwise unrelated units of life, whether bugs or cancer cells.rnCouzin, an assistant professor in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton University, films animal behavior and analyzes the footage in a computer to pin down the collective decision-making process of animals, and how individuals affect it.