Ceratopsian social groups

[StephanPickering@cs.com]

The self-organization principle underlying molecular evolution is applicable to evolution of social groups. I have pondered the spectacular "bone beds" of ceratopsians, drowning perhaps in panic, some surviving not by "luck",  but by the direction of matriarchal individuals who had learned how to cross in similar circumstances. Such behaviour is "switch-governed", behaviour/development of a dinosaur (from egg to nest to walking about protected by adults) being similarly "switch-controlled". In other words, each dinosaur would have a threshold at which such behavioural patterns would be "on" or "off". Within large social groups, interactions (social hierarchies) could and would control who would be "on" or "off". Foraging and exploratory behaviour among ceratopsians could have appeared to an observer to be "wasteful", i.e., multiplicities of variants, seemingly going nowhere...u!
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il the juveniles learned how to forage, how to explore for proper foods, the applicable variants surviving (somatic selections of neurone growths, immune systems, etc.). How would one measure if a ceratopsian society was maintained by self organization? Unfortunately, game theory and population genetics frameworks are, often, simplistic typologies. Dinosaur embryogenesis, in particular, could be understood as: selection "units" are  part of nonlinear adapting systems. Among living dinosaurs living in large flocks, is it possible to create a methodological/algorithmic paradigm to interpolate pre-K/T dinosaur flock behaviour? That is: genetic/phenotype variability > intra-flock inter-flock situations. 
This leads to another avenue of thought. Determination of possible behaviour is often predicated upon distribution samples. Could one create the computer software (I have seen studies of avialian flight mechanics using computers simulating an actual animal) to mathematically "guess" as to dinosaur behaviour/movements within a herd?  If possible, then applicability extends: one could study transitions from "solitary" animals to sociality, just as one could trace cells > tissues > organisms. Translation/transcription are algorithms to understand how DNA becomes protein, so why not algorithms to trace: physiology of cells > neuronal behaviours > individual behaviours > social behaviours among dinosaurs?