en Brilliant 10: Iain Couzin, the Pattern Maker <div
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hidden"> John B. Carnett </div> </div><p>The shuffle of life—the
wheeling of birds, the silver flash of escaping fish—looks
mystically organized. Iain Couzin, who models collective
behavior in nature, identifies those patterns mathematically.
And he's finding that certain patterns extend across otherwise
unrelated units of life, whether bugs or cancer cells.</p> <p>Co