Majority concession toward a democratic consensus / Curr. Biol., Jan. 6, 2022 (Vol. 32, Issue 3)

We study conflict resolution in emigrating ant colonies during binary nest selection. We find that individuals concede their potential benefit to promote social consensus. In particular, colonies resolve the conflict imposed by a persistent minority through “majority concession,” wherein a majority of ants that hold first-hand knowledge regarding the superior quality nest choose to reside in the inferior one.

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H. Rajendran, A. Haluts, N.S. Gov, and O. Feinerman (2022). Ants resort to majority concession to reach democratic consensus in the presence of a persistent minority. Curr. Biol. 32.

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