Division of labor and comparative advantage

The law of comparative advantage was first mentioned in 1817 by English economist David Ricardo.

A company has a comparative advantage when it is able to provide a good or service at a lower opportunity cost than others, helping it sell the same product at a lower cost, ...

• Comparative advantage is only an advantage of a lower opportunity cost, and does not factor in volume or quality.
• Absolute advantage is the pure ability of a company to produce better goods or services (in quantity or quality) than...

The research team focused specifically on creating computational models that represent patterns of worker-ant brain size and energy use, looking at groups of Oecophylla weaver ants, Atta leafcutter ants, and the common garden ant Formica. What they found is that colle...