Of ants and men: Ant behavior might mirror political polarization

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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