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polyethism
Division of labor among members of a colony.
In social insects a distinction can be made between caste polyethism, in which morphological castes are specialized to serve different functions, and age polyethism, in which the same individual passes through different forms of specialization as she grows older.
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age polyethism, temporal polyethism
The regular changing of labor roles by colony members as they age.
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