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    eusociality. M. A. Nowak, C. E. Tarnita, and E. O. Wilson proposed in 2010 that since eusociality produces an extremely altruistic society, eusocial groups...
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    model is sufficient to explain the evolution of eusociality, and most likely the pathway to eusociality involved a combination of pre-conditions, ecological...
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    acknowledged degree of sociality. Eusociality has evolved in several orders of insects. Common examples of eusociality are from Hymenoptera (ants, bees...
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    Bee (section Eusociality)
    nine) evolutions of eusociality within Hymenoptera. Haplodiploidy is neither necessary nor sufficient for eusociality. Some eusocial species such as termites...
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  • heterospecific intruders. This evidence points towards the first known case of eusociality in a marine animal. The species name "regalis" comes from the Latin regalis...
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    Hymenoptera (bees and ants) and Isoptera (termites) to exhibit eusociality. Eusocial insects develop large, multigenerational cooperative societies that...
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    Bird colony Clonal colony Coenocyte Colonisation (biology) Coral reef Eusociality Superorganism Swarm Birth colony Austroplatypus incompertus Jackson,...
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    Hymenoptera (bees, wasps, and ants) and Isoptera (termites) that exhibit eusociality. Eusocial insects are animals that develop large, multigenerational cooperative...
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    within the colony. Primitively eusocial species such as these provide insight into the early evolution of eusociality. Halictus sexcinctus, which exhibits...
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    Beetle (section Eusociality)
    definition of eusociality". Behavioral Ecology. 6 (1): 109–115. doi:10.1093/beheco/6.1.109. Kent, D. S. & Simpson, J. A. (1992). "Eusociality in the beetle...
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    mole-rat (Fukomys damarensis) the only widely recognized examples of eusociality (the highest classification of sociality) in mammals. The naked mole-rat...
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    with other inferred eusociality origins. Thus, the Halictinae are believed to model the primitive eusociality of advanced eusocial hymenopterans. Because...
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    radiations between 3 and 9 mya from which the ancestors of these eusocial species appeared. Eusociality is thought to have arisen due to competition for space,...
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    selection theory of how eusociality evolved. Whether haplodiploidy did in fact pave the way for the evolution of eusociality is still a matter of debate...
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  • organisms. Other problematic cases include colonial organisms; a colony of eusocial insects is organised adaptively, and has germ-soma specialisation, with...
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    selection have crumbled" and that he now relies instead on the theory of eusociality and "gene-culture co-evolution" for the underlying mechanics of sociobiology...
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    Otiorhynchus. One species of weevil, Austroplatypus incompertus, exhibits eusociality, one of the few insects outside the Hymenoptera and the Isoptera to do...
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    "Ancestral Monogamy Shows Kin Selection Is Key to the Evolution of Eusociality". Science. 320 (5880): 1213–1216. Bibcode:2008Sci...320.1213H. doi:10...
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    work on the classification of insect societies and for coining the term eusociality. Batra graduated from Saranac Lake (New York) High School in 1956 and...
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    advantageous and has been hypothesized to contribute to the multiple origins of eusociality within this order. In many colonies of bees, ants, and wasps, worker...
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    stage); common bottlenose dolphins; orcas; and false killer whales. Eusociality is the highest level of social organization. These societies have an...
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    analysis supports the single origin of eusociality hypothesis within the corbiculate bees, where eusociality evolved in the common ancestor of Bombini...
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    diverse, cosmopolitan family of wasps, including nearly all the known eusocial wasps (such as Polistes fuscatus, Vespa orientalis, and Vespula germanica)...
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    PMC 34068. PMID 11087846. Wilson, E.O. & Hölldobler, B. (September 2005). "Eusociality: Origin and consequences". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
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    portal The Meerkats, a 2008 documentary feature film Compare the Meerkat Eusociality "PBDB: Suricata". Jordan, N.R. & Do Linh San, E. (2015). "Suricata suricatta"...
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    organisms of the same species have also evolved. An extreme case is the eusociality found in social insects, such as bees, termites and ants, where sterile...
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    genus Bombus, live in eusocial colonies in which the individuals in the group act as a single multiorganismal superorganism. Eusociality may have evolved in...
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    (non-feeding). Some larvae are dependent on adults to feed them. In many eusocial Hymenoptera species, the larvae are fed by female workers. In Ropalidia...
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  • Georg; Yamamoto, Shûhei (29 July 2022). "Evidence for the evolution of eusociality in stem ants and a systematic revision of † Gerontoformica (Hymenoptera:...
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    Hornets (insects in the genus Vespa) are the largest of the eusocial wasps, and are similar in appearance to their close relatives yellowjackets. Some...
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