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. …read more

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. …read more