LABOUR DIVISION. “The division of labor appears to be the result of a preexisting behavioral ground plan, in which solitary individuals tend to move from one job to another after the first is completed. In eusocial species, the algorithm is transferred to the avoidance of a job already being filled by another nestmate. It is evident that progressively provisioning bees and wasps are “spring-loaded” (strongly predisposed, with a trigger) for a rapid shift to eusociality, once group selection favors the change.”
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