Division of labor and political polarization may be driven by the same processes, say computational biologists. They found that two forces — ”social influence,” the tendency of individuals to become similar to those they interact with, and ”interaction bias,” which leads us to interact with others who are already like us — are both necessary for division of labor and polarized social networks to emerge.
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Of ants and men: Ant behavior might mirror political polarization
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The absence of ants: Entomologist confirms first Saharan farming 10,000 years ago
March 16, 2018By
By analysing a prehistoric site in the Libyan desert, a team of researchers has been able to establish that people in Saharan Africa were cultivating and storing wild cereals 10,000 years ago. In addition to revelations about early agricultural practices, there could be a lesson for the future, if global warming leads to a necessity for alternative crops.
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