Two years ago Raphael D. Sagarin and colleagues proposed that security systems should learn from nature. Now they've worked with defence professionals on putting that call into practice.
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Sagarin, R., Alcorta, C., Atran, S. et al. Decentralize, adapt and cooperate. Nature 465, 292–293 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/465292a
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