It could be that higher levels of specialization in more advanced competitions produce motivated solo programmers, while more collaborative efforts can be motivational for younger programmers.
By contrasting the behavior and degree of caste specialization between primitively and advanced eusocial insects, it is clearly evident how the evolution of worker behavior and specialization is associated with increased colony sizes and social complexity.
Graduating dental students must decide whether to either enter the workforce immediately after graduation or to pursue another career option (e.g., advanced education or specialization).
Agricultural practices have undergone intense changes, which are evidenced by significant advances in technology and mechanization, specialization of agricultural undertakings, discontinuation of labor-intensive farming branches, increased field size, drainage of wetlands, and the removal of hedges and boundary strips.
While I am the first to advocate that teaching and research should address the critical challenges that confront society, I am sure Kristof would allow that specialization is critical if knowledge is to advance.
Whatever specialization you choose, keep in mind that the greatest advances can only come about if these disciplines coalesce into a continuum, encompassing all necessary steps in creating a new drug therapy.
The sad thing is that 25 years later, with all the sophisticated advances in medicine and the emphasis on increasing specialization, the gap in what is available in basic settings, to what we take for granted in the West, appears to have grown.
These discoveries indicate that the site's Chalcolithic inhabitants had a culturally advanced community with a high degree of technical specialization and a wealth of foreign contacts.
Our present data advance the current hypothesis that cancer diminishes the specialization of affected tissues.
On the other hand, researchers producing the data and models that critically advance the understanding of biological phenomena are increasingly separated from their use by the specialization inherent in each of these activities.
