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The duration of interaction events in a society is a fundamental measure of its collective nature and potentially reflects variability in individual behavior. Here we performed a high-throughput measurement of trophallaxis and face-to-face event durations experienced by a colony of honeybees over their entire lifetimes. The interaction time distribution is heavy-tailed, as previously reported for human face-to-face interactions. We developed a theory of pair interactions that takes into account individual variability and predicts the scaling behavior for both bee and extant human datasets. The individual variability of worker honeybees was nonzero but less than that of humans, possibly reflecting their greater genetic relatedness. Our work shows how individual differences can lead to universal patterns of behavior that transcend species and specific mechanisms for social interactions

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  • Sang Hyun Choi

    (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801; Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801)

  • Vikyath D. Rao

    (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801; Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801)

  • Tim Gernat

    (Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801; Swarm Intelligence and Complex Systems Group, Department of Computer Science, Leipzig University, 04109 Leipzig, Germany)

  • Adam R. Hamilton

    (Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801)

  • Gene E. Robinson

    (Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801; Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801; Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801)

  • Nigel Goldenfeld

    (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801; Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801)

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  • Sang Hyun Choi & Vikyath D. Rao & Tim Gernat & Adam R. Hamilton & Gene E. Robinson & Nigel Goldenfeld, 2020. "The duration of interaction events in a society is a fundamental measure of its collective nature and potentially reflects variability in individual behavior. Here we performed a high-throughput measu," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 117(50), pages 31754-31759, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nas:journl:v:117:y:2020:p:31754-31759
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