A queen without power, a body without a head — the miracle of collective intelligence

Cooperation, along with competition, is the driving force of evolution. Is it immodest to say that Homo sapiens is the best example?

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In the fall of 1906. Francis Galton went to the Plymouth country market in England. He witnessed a contest in which participants estimated the weight of meat from an ox after it was…