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stigmergy (s) (noun) (no pl)
The guidance of work performed by individual colony members by the evidences of work previously accomplished rather than by direct signals from nest mates: The mechanism of stigmergy involves the indirect coordination between traces of the previous activity by ants in the environment and what still needs to be achieved.
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