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Kevin Kelly -- Out of Control - 1 views

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kevin kelly out of control bees live-in hive

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  • Charlotte Pierce on 31 Jan 13
     
    In his book "Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World" Kevin Kelly has a chapter titled "Hive Mind."  Here is one of my favorite parts of that chapter: "For many years Mark Thompson, a beekeeper local to my area, had the bizarre urge to build a Live-In Hive -- an active bee home you could visit by inserting your head into it. He was working in a yard once when a beehive spewed a swarm of bees "like a flow of black lava, dissolving, then taking wing." The black cloud coalesced into a 20-foot-round black halo of 30,000 bees that hovered, UFO-like, six feet off the ground, exactly at eye level. The flickering insect halo began to drift slowly away, keeping a constant six feet above the earth. It was a Live-In Hive dream come true.
Charlotte Pierce

The Evolution of Cooperation 1: Selfish genes and helpful family | Science Brainwaves - 0 views

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  • evolution of cooperation.
  • . How does “survival of the fittest” end up with people helping each other
  • moray eel allowing a cleaner fish
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  • gene level view of evolution is commonly known as the Selfish Gene Theory
  • worker bee will sacrifice its life for the hive
  • kin selection
  • Charlotte Pierce on 01 Feb 13
     
    kin selection and it means the gene will spread.
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