Revered economist Adam Smith argued that specialisation was at the heart of improved productivity and lower costs, citing the example of a pin factory.
Specialisation was a means of offering parents choice, as were league tables, though in reality, says Mortimore, "no one chooses schools on the basis of specialism.
Modern human populations grew, Neanderthal populations shrank, and the rest is prehistory.Of course, the archaeological record cannot prove which sex was doing what, or even if specialisation was determined by sex at all.
Community specialisation was the highest in open abandoned fields, which confirms the importance of such fields as refuges for regionally specialised species.
To this end, the study explores how and why the NEF's system of cost accounting, where there was a unique combination of in-house production and specialisation, was synthesised into a set of unified cost accounting rules promulgated by the military as a result of interaction between the two.
Andersen's specialisation was in acousmatic music, non-traditional music created from generated sounds that have no apparent visual source.
