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In contrast to division of work, division of labour is the specialization of an individual workers' or organizations' skills, through education, training, and practice.
At higher levels of organization, division of labor can be found in teeth (12) and arthropod limbs (13). Also some instances of leftâright asymmetry (14) in bilateral organisms such as asymmetric chelipeds in fiddler craps can be classified as division of labor.