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From division of labor to the collective behavior of social insects (2016)

by admin | Jul 1, 2016 | Gordon Lab

Deborah M. Gordon Abstract‘Division of labor’ is a misleading way to describe the organization of tasks in social insect colonies, because there is little evidence for persistent individual specialization in task. Instead, task allocation in social insects occurs...

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