
A team of biologists has identified a set of nerve cells in desert locusts that bring about ‘gang-like’ gregarious behavior when they are forced into a crowd. The findings demonstrate the importance of individual history for understanding how brain chemicals control behaviour, which may apply more broadly to humans also.
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