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Science 16 November 2001:
Vol. 294. no. 5546, pp. 1466 - 1467
DOI: 10.1126/science.1066235
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SYSTEMS BIOLOGY:
Unveiling Mechanisms of Collective Behavior

A review by John W. Pepper and Guy Hoelzer

Self-Organization in Biological Systems
Scott Camazine, Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Nigel R. Franks, James Sneyd, Guy Theraulaz, and Eric Bonabeau
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2001. 546 pp. $65, £45. ISBN 0-691-01200-3.

This contribution to the Princeton Studies in Complexity series presents a set of case studies to demonstrate how models can be used to generate and test hypotheses about mechanisms of self-organization that lead to group behaviors.
John W. Pepper is at the Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA. E-mail: jpepper{at}santafe.edu. Guy Hoelzer is at the Santa Fe Institute, and in the Department of Biology, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV 89557, USA. E-mail: hoelzer{at}med.unr.edu.

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