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LIT-1406: Stop Signals Provide Cross Inhibition in Collective Decision-Making by Honeybee Swarms

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StatusActive — read 2026-10-29 (NOTE-1411) in full, from the Science Express PDF of 8 December 2011 posted on rangevoting.org (https://rangevoting.org/SeeleyVSHFMinhibit.pdf); worth reading as the field evidence that honeybee scouts aim inhibitory stop signals at scouts dancing for rival nest sites while the swarm is choosing, and as a model in which that cross inhibition, above a critical rate, breaks deadlock between equal options. Read it knowing that the targeting result rests on two swarms, that inhibition becomes general once the choice is made, that the model's equations and thresholds are in the supporting material, which was not read, and that this copy is the online-first version, not the print layout of 6 January 2012.
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Cited as “paper” byNOTE-1411 — Seeley et al. — Stop signals provide cross inhibition in honeybee swarms

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Seeley, T. D., Visscher, P. K., Schlegel, T., Hogan, P. M., Franks, N. R. and Marshall, J. A. R. (2012). Stop signals provide cross inhibition in collective decision-making by honeybee swarms. Science, 335(6064), 108–111. doi:10.1126/science.1210361.

Read in full on 2026-10-29 (NOTE-1411), from the Science Express version on rangevoting.org; the supporting online material was not read.

Why this is here

The exchange cited it for CLAIM-418 and CASE-108: a collective decision in which inhibition between advocates, not a central arbiter, settles the choice, as a natural case of governance among specialists. The exchange gave no description to check. Note that the abstract Crossref holds is the editor’s summary, not the authors’ abstract.

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