Social influence and interaction bias can drive emergent behavioural specialization and modular social networks across systems.

ABSTRACT: In social systems ranging from ant colonies to human society, behavioural specialization-consistent individual differences in behaviour-is commonplace: individuals can specialize in the tasks they perform (division of labour (DOL)), the political behaviour they exhibit (political polarization) or the non-task behaviours they exhibit (personalities). Across these contexts, behavioural specialization often co-occurs with modular and assortative social networks, such that individuals tend to associate with others that have the same behavioural specialization. This raises the question of whether a common mechanism could drive co-emergent behavioural specialization and social network structure across contexts. To investigate this question, here we extend a model of self-organized DOL to account

SUBMITTER: Tokita CK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7014790 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature