Spring 2003
Tuesdays 12:15 Goldwater 604
Seminar Schedule:<http://math.la.asu.edu/~tom/cognition/math+cogsched.html>
On Tuesday, April 15, at 12:15 PM in GWC 604,
the Mathematics and Cognition Seminar will present
a brief lecture by (almost) Dr. Root Gorelick of the
Department of Biology.
The topic will be:
"Quantifying Division of Labor"
| Division of labor is considered one of the primary adaptations of sociality. Yet there exist no quantitative measures of division of labor, hence no rigorous way to test hypotheses regarding division of labor and its evolution. We provide a statistic taking values between zero and one that quantifies (i) task specialization of individuals and (ii) dispersion of task performance between individuals. |