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a model of task allocation in which workers move toward tasks that need doing, so age-linked division of labour emerges from work availability rather than fixed programs.

In entomology, foraging for work refers to a model of task allocation in which workers move toward tasks that need doing, so age-linked division of labour emerges from work availability rather than fixed programs. This meaning comes from Franks (1994) in Animal Behaviour.[1]

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References

Franks, N. R., & Tofts, C. (1994). Foraging for work: how tasks allocate workers. Animal Behaviour, 48(2), 470-472. https://doi.org/10.1006/anbe.1994.1261

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