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Social insect biology

a sharp rise in an individual's probability of a behaviour once the number of others doing it passes a threshold, enabling group decisions.

In social insect biology, quorum response refers to a sharp rise in an individual's probability of a behaviour once the number of others doing it passes a threshold, enabling group decisions. This meaning comes from Sumpter (2008) in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.[1]

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  1. Sumpter, D. J. T., & Pratt, S. C. (2008). Quorum responses and consensus decision making. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 364(1518), 743-753. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2008.0204

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