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The selective pressure to gain greater control over the environment led to combinations and recombinations of existing and newly formed information systems. At all stages in the evolution of intelligence, once true intelligence had become established, there emerged the phenomenon of collective intelligence.
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Stonier, T. (1992). The Evolution of Collective Intelligence in Animals. In: Beyond Information. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1835-0_4
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