title: Doing the right thing: Ants, honeybees and naked mole-rats.
abstract: Traditionally the division of labour in social insects has been divided into two types: physical and temporal polyethism. New theoretical models indicate that temporal polyethism may be an emergent property rather than an organizational principle. Current research is revealing the relationship between temporal polyethism and the role of nonspecialized individuals within species of physically polymorphic social insects.
authors.affiliation: Chris Tofts is at the Dept of Computer Science, University College Swansea, Swansea, UK SA2 8PP.
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authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tofts
authors.forename: N R
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authors.lastname: Franks