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Intraspecific Variation in Learning: Worker Wasps Are Less Able to Learn and Remember Individual Conspecific Faces

Elizabeth A Tibbetts, Allison Injaian, Michael J Sheehan

    The American Naturalist
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    castecognitionindividual recognitionnegative frequency-dependent selectionplasticity

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