The FASEB Journal • Editorial

Quorum Sensing on the Airbus Wing: Margret Fuller and Prince Kropotkin

Scrambling for the exits and carrying the helpless, they perched ankle- and then knee-deep atop the wings as an improvised armada of tour boats and ferries streamed to their rescue ... witnesses described a scene of level-headed teamwork to rescue the weak and infirm. —The Washington Post, January 16, 2009 (1) 

We at once see that those animals which acquire habits of mutual aid are undoubtedly the fittest ... we may safely say that mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle but that, as a factor of evolution it most probably has a far greater importance. —Prince Pyotr Kropotkin, 1902 (2) 

Bacteria communicate extensively with each other and employ a communal approach to facilitate survival in hostile environments. —Shadaba Asad and Steven M. Opal, 2008 (3)