Recent progress in the study of adaptive behavioural flexibility in honeybees
Author(s)
Steven A Kolmes
Abstract
There are two logical end-points to the continuum representing how a human or animal society might be organized. At one end would be a perfectly efficient system, with every member of the society assigned to a specific set of tasks that utilized 100% of his or her potential to work. This type of society has been dubbed a 'maximally ergonomically efficient' system. The evolution of such a society requires a stable environment, because at anyone time it is already performing as much work as possible.
