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ELIFE
卷 4, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELIFE SCIENCES PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.10955
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- James S. McDonnell Foundation
- National Science Foundation [PHY-0848755, 105-1355061, EAGER 10S-1251585, OCE-1046001]
- Army Research Office [W911NG-11-1-0385, W911NF-14-1-0431]
- Office of Naval Research Global [N00014-09-1-1074, N00014-14-1-0635]
- Human Frontier Science Program [RGP0065/2012]
- Division Of Integrative Organismal Systems
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1355061] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Many animal groups exhibit rapid, coordinated collective motion. Yet, the evolutionary forces that cause such collective responses to evolve are poorly understood. Here, we develop analytical methods and evolutionary simulations based on experimental data from schooling fish. We use these methods to investigate how populations evolve within unpredictable, time-varying resource environments. We show that populations evolve toward a distinctive regime in behavioral phenotype space, where small responses of individuals to local environmental cues cause spontaneous changes in the collective state of groups. These changes resemble phase transitions in physical systems. Through these transitions, individuals evolve the emergent capacity to sense and respond to resource gradients (i.e. individuals perceive gradients via social interactions, rather than sensing gradients directly), and to allocate themselves among distinct, distant resource patches. Our results yield new insight into how natural selection, acting on selfish individuals, results in the highly effective collective responses evident in nature.
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