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Animal Groups in Three Dimensions: How Species Aggregate (Psychiatry and Medicine) - Hardcover

 
9780521460248: Animal Groups in Three Dimensions: How Species Aggregate (Psychiatry and Medicine)

Synopsis

The first attempt to investigate this pervasive biological phenomenon from a variety of disciplines, from physics to mathematics to biology.

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Review

' ... worthwhile book with something in it for everyone who is interested in animal groups.' Ethology

' ... has definite possibilities for the imaginative production of project work at the undergraduate level, using some concepts of applied mathematics and many standard techniques of calculus and statistics.' Peter Giblin, The Mathematical Gazette

Book Description

This book is about the ways in which many animals form groups; for instance, schools of fish, flocks of birds, and swarms of insects. Covering both invertebrate and vertebrate species, the authors investigate three-dimensional animal aggregations from a variety of disciplines, from physics to mathematics to biology.

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