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Task switching is associated with temporal delays in
Article in Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- The Weak Worker Hypothesis: a new framework for understanding division of labour in social insects.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Review
- The evolution of division of labour: preconditions and evolutionary feedback.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Helping niches may trigger the development of task specialization and division of labour.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- When being flexible matters: Ecological underpinnings for the evolution of collective flexibility and task allocation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Vitellogenin-like A-associated shifts in social cue responsiveness regulate behavioral task specialization in an ant.PLoS biology · 2018Article
- Spatial fidelity of workers predicts collective response to disturbance in a social insect.Nature communications · 2018Article
- Costs of task allocation with local feedback: Effects of colony size and extra workers in social insects and other multi-agent systems.PLoS computational biology · 2017Article
- Task switching is associated with temporal delays inBehavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
The major evolutionary transitions often result in reorganization of biological systems, and a component of such reorganization is that individuals within the system specialize on performing certain tasks, resulting in a division of labor. Although the traditional benefit of division of labor is thought to be a gain in work efficiency, one alternative benefit of specialization is avoiding temporal delays associated with switching tasks. While models have demonstrated that costs of task switching can drive the evolution of division of labor, little empirical support exists for this hypothesis. We tested whether there were task-switching costs in
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