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The following information is from the London Zoo website at
http://www.zsl.org/zsl-london-zoo/whats-on/scientific-meeting-leadership-and-coordination-in-animal-species,224,EV.html
The website contains further links, reading material, and a post-meeting
dinner booking form.
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Scientific Meeting - From Despotism to Democracy: leadership and
coordination in animal groups
Dates: 9 Oct 2007
Times: 6:00 pm - 7:45 pm
Take any human society, past or present, and you’ll find some form of
leadership or authority structure, located on a spectrum stretching from
despotism to democracy. Such leadership is a means by which groups can
gain from cooperation and achieve a common goal. But we still know
surprisingly little about how groups of animals make decisions as a group.
How does a swarm of bees choose a new nest site? A flock of birds decide
when to leave a foraging patch? Or a group of primates decide on their
direction of travel?
In each of these examples, unless group members decide on the same
action, the group will split up and individuals will forfeit many of the
advantages gained from being in that group.
Scientists working on the evolution and behaviour of decision-making in
animal groups on a range of species, and at different scales, will talk
on this topical subject. Implications for our understanding of how
large-scale biological patterns result from the actions and interactions
of the individual components of a system will then be discussed.
Organised by Andrew J. King and Dr Guy Cowlishaw, Institute of Zoology, ZSL
Speakers
* Larissa Conradt Department of Biology & Environmental Sciences,
University of Sussex, Brighton
* Sean A. Rands School of Clinical Veterinary Science, University
of Bristol, Bristol
* Andrew J. King University College London & Institute of Zoology,
ZSL, London
Guest Chair: Professor Jens Krause, Faculty of Biological Sciences,
University of Leeds
The talks are free and open to the public - talks will begin at 6.00pm.
A dinner with the speakers will follow this Scientific Meeting and
places must be booked in advance. Please download dinner booking form
for further information.
Further Information: please contact Joy Hayward, Scientific Meetings
Coordinator, Zoological Society of London, Regents Park, London NW1 4RY.
Tel:+44 (0)20 7449 6227. Fax: +44 (0)20 7449 6411. E-mail:
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Dr David Hardman
Department of Psychology
London Metropolitan University
Calcutta House
Old Castle Street
London E1 7NT
Phone: 020 7320 1256
Fax: 020 7320 1236
Web:
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/depts/dops/staff/staff-profile-pages/davidhardman.cfm
Risk-and-Decision mailing list:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/RISK-AND-DECISION.html
London Judgment and Decision Making Group:
http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/ljdm/
Seminar series on the Economics of Behaviour and Decision Making:
http://www.decisionresearchlab.com/ebdm//?page_id=3
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