News articles tagged with 'eusociality'
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Is blood thicker than water?
— 28 Mar 2011 15:32 | HealthIn 1964 biologist William Hamilton introduced Inclusive Fitness Theory to predict and explain phenomena ranging from animal behaviour to patterns of gene expression. With its many successes,…
Scientists say natural selection alone can explain eusociality
— 26 Aug 2010 09:40 | BiologyScientists at Harvard University have sketched a new map of the 'evolutionary labyrinth' species must traverse to reach eusociality, the rare but spectacularly successful social structure…
A survey of advanced social organisation in insects
— 2 Jan 2008 08:26 | BiologyThe January 2008 issue of BioScience includes an article by biologist Edward O. Wilson that argues for a new perspective on the evolution of advanced social organisation in some ants,…
New study rewrites evolutionary history of vespid wasps
— 5 Mar 2007 07:00 | BiologyScientists at the University of Illinois have conducted a genetic analysis of vespid wasps that revises the vespid family tree and challenges long-held views about how the wasps social…
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