Origin of division of labor is decoupled from polymorphism in colonial animals
Sarah Leventhal,
Stewart M. Edie,
Rebecca Morrison
et al.
Abstract:Division of labor, the specialization of sometimes phenotypically divergent cell types or group members, is often associated with ecological success in eukaryotic colonial organisms. Despite its many independent evolutionary origins, how division of labor originates remains unclear. Conventional hypotheses tend towards an “economic” model, so that biological division of labor may reflect a partitioning of pre-existing tasks and morphologies into specialized colony members. Here, we present an alternative model… Show more
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