{"id":642485,"date":"2020-01-08T17:03:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T21:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=642485"},"modified":"2020-01-08T17:03:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T21:03:48","slug":"of-ants-and-men-ant-behavior-might-mirror-political-polarization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=642485","title":{"rendered":"Of ants and men: Ant behavior might mirror political polarization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Division of labor and political polarization may be driven by the same processes, say computational biologists. They found that two forces &#8212; &#8221;social influence,&#8221; the tendency of individuals to become similar to those they interact with, and &#8221;interaction bias,&#8221; which leads us to interact with others who are already like us &#8212; are both necessary for division of labor and polarized social networks to emerge.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2020\/01\/200108160348.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Of ants and men: Ant behavior might mirror political polarization<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ScienceDaily&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Division of labor and political polarization may be driven by the same processes, say computational biologists. They found that two forces &#8212; &#8221;social influence,&#8221; the tendency of individuals to become&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=642485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=642485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=642485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=642485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}