Task-switching costs promote the evolution of division of labor and shifts in individuality

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 34, 2012, Pages 13686-13691

  Goldsby, Heather J ^a,b   Dornhaus, Anna ^c   Kerr, Benjamin ^a,b   Ofria, Charles ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

^d Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital evolution; Fraternal transition; Problem decomposition; Specialization; Task partitioning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; DIVISION OF LABOR; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; INDIVIDUALITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TASK SWITCHING COSTS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DECISION MAKING; GENOME; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECIALIZATION; SYSTEMS THEORY; WORK;

EID: 84865282714     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1202233109     Document Type: Article

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