The evolution of division of labour: preconditions and evolutionary feedback

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 380(1922)

Опубликована: Март 20, 2025

Division of Labour (DoL) among group members reflects the pinnacle social complexity. The synergistic effects created by task specialization and sharing duties benefitting raise efficiency acquisition, use, management defence resources a fundamental step above potential individual agents. At same time, it may stabilize societies because involved interdependence collaborators. Here, I review conditions associated with emergence DoL, which include existence (i) sizeable groups enduring membership; (ii) improving performance; (iii) low conflict interest owing to correlated payoffs. This results in (iv) combination intra-individual consistency inter-individual variance carrying out different tasks, creates (v) some degree mutual members. DoL typically evolves ‘bottom-up’ without external regulatory forces, but latter gain importance at later stage evolution Owing feedback processes, cause effect are often difficult disentangle evolutionary trajectory towards structured well-developed their Nevertheless, entail one-way street complexity, retrogression getting increasingly more agents depend on each other progressing stages evolution. article is part theme issue ‘Division labour as key driver evolution’.

Язык: Английский

Individual vocal identity may be obscured following colony assembly in captive black-capped chickadees

Behavioural Processes, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 105151 - 105151

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

Predator exposure early in life shapes behavioral development and individual variation in a clonal fish

Scientific Reports, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 14(1)

Опубликована: Сен. 17, 2024

Язык: Английский