Synthetic genetic circuits for programming cell populations and coordinating behaviour across a population have been studied by a research group of the Third Military Medical University (Wang et al., 2008).
A social policy expresses "ongoing strategies for structuring relationships and coordinating behaviour to achieve collective purposes...ways of exerting power, of getting people to do things that they might otherwise not do" [ 1].
Increased sharing may equilibrate concentrations of nuclear encoded proteins to enable better control over mitochondria 39, promote coordinated behaviour between mitochondria to synchronize gene expression 1, 88 or improve the health of the mitochondrial population by allowing mitochondria to complement each other's deficiencies 89, 90 (functional complementation).
Mathematical models of the evolution of population-level asymmetries based on game theory [17] pointed out that shared directionality in a population might arise as an evolutionary strategy driven by living in a social group, where individually asymmetrical organisms have to coordinate their behaviours with the behaviour of other conspecific individuals.
Quorum sensing allows bacteria populations to communicate and coordinate group behaviour and commonly is used by pathogens (disease-causing organisms) in disease and infection processes.
Coalition, in politics and international relations, a group of actors that coordinate their behaviour in a limited and temporary fashion to achieve a common goal.
The concentration of quorum-sensing molecules most commonly peptides or acylated homoserine lactones (AHLs; special signaling chemicals)—is related to the number of bacteria of the same or different species that are in the biofilm and helps coordinate the behaviour of the biofilm.
The results suggest that agents sharing information in small-world networks can coordinate their behaviour more effectively than agents playing the standard EMG.
David-Barrett and Dunbar propose that these hierarchical social networks facilitate the dispersal of useful information in communities that need to coordinate their behaviour – all looking for food in the same place, say – but which are too big for everyone to consult everyone else.
Communication is an important aspect of human life, allowing us to powerfully coordinate our behaviour with that of others.
