• Thumbnail for Eusociality
    eusociality. M. A. Nowak, C. E. Tarnita, and E. O. Wilson proposed in 2010 that since eusociality produces an extremely altruistic society, eusocial groups...
    68 KB (7,531 words) - 18:59, 4 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Evolution of eusociality
    model is sufficient to explain the evolution of eusociality, and most likely the pathway to eusociality involved a combination of pre-conditions, ecological...
    24 KB (3,078 words) - 21:32, 15 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sociality
    acknowledged degree of sociality. Eusociality has evolved in several orders of insects. Common examples of eusociality are from Hymenoptera (ants, bees...
    30 KB (3,186 words) - 03:45, 18 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bee
    Bee (section Eusociality)
    nine) evolutions of eusociality within Hymenoptera. Haplodiploidy is neither necessary nor sufficient for eusociality. Some eusocial species such as termites...
    119 KB (12,339 words) - 17:04, 5 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Euglossa viridissima
    will not express eusociality. Whereas males of this species will leave the nest and never return once they reach maturity. The eusociality of females has...
    13 KB (1,533 words) - 04:17, 18 December 2024
  • 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...
    20 KB (2,383 words) - 16:34, 5 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Beetle
    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...
    155 KB (16,986 words) - 07:52, 10 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Halictidae
    within the colony. Primitively eusocial species such as these provide insight into the early evolution of eusociality. Halictus sexcinctus, which exhibits...
    18 KB (1,650 words) - 16:33, 1 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Austroplatypus incompertus
    Hymenoptera (bees and ants) and Isoptera (termites) to exhibit eusociality. Eusocial insects develop large, multigenerational cooperative societies that...
    24 KB (3,113 words) - 19:29, 22 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Insect
    "Ancestral Monogamy Shows Kin Selection Is Key to the Evolution of Eusociality". Science. 320 (5880): 1213–1216. Bibcode:2008Sci...320.1213H. doi:10...
    134 KB (12,803 words) - 01:44, 21 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kladothrips
    Hymenoptera (bees, wasps, and ants) and Isoptera (termites) that exhibit eusociality. Eusocial insects are animals that develop large, multigenerational cooperative...
    9 KB (1,121 words) - 12:32, 3 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Colony (biology)
    Bird colony Clonal colony Coenocyte Colonisation (biology) Coral reef Eusociality Superorganism Swarm Birth colony Austroplatypus incompertus Jackson,...
    17 KB (1,971 words) - 21:40, 6 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Halictinae
    with other inferred eusociality origins. Thus, the Halictinae are believed to model the primitive eusociality of advanced eusocial hymenopterans. Because...
    24 KB (2,803 words) - 17:27, 3 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Naked mole-rat
    mole-rat (Fukomys damarensis) the only widely recognized examples of eusociality (the highest classification of sociality) in mammals. The naked mole-rat...
    48 KB (5,463 words) - 07:39, 8 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hymenoptera
    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...
    28 KB (2,804 words) - 23:35, 13 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kin selection
    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...
    63 KB (7,643 words) - 02:39, 16 December 2024
  • which states that strict lifetime monogamy enabled the evolution of eusociality in the Hymenoptera (bees, ants, wasps, etc.). He has also lent influential...
    2 KB (194 words) - 16:23, 3 November 2023
  • organisms. Other problematic cases include colonial organisms; a colony of eusocial insects is organised adaptively, and has germ-soma specialisation, with...
    23 KB (2,083 words) - 20:32, 21 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Weevil
    can jump. One species of weevil, Austroplatypus incompertus, exhibits eusociality, one of the few insects outside the Hymenoptera and the Isoptera to do...
    12 KB (1,247 words) - 03:31, 23 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Suzanne Batra
    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...
    4 KB (442 words) - 15:49, 15 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Stingless bee
    origins of higher eusociality. Subsequent research has reinforced the idea that stingless bees and honey bees evolved their eusocial lifestyles independently...
    105 KB (12,238 words) - 03:59, 25 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Synalpheus
    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,...
    10 KB (894 words) - 13:15, 8 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Vespidae
    diverse, cosmopolitan family of wasps, including nearly all the known eusocial wasps (such as Polistes fuscatus, Vespa orientalis, and Vespula germanica)...
    6 KB (634 words) - 10:43, 5 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ant
    Georg; Yamamoto, Shûhei (29 July 2022). "Evidence for the evolution of eusociality in stem ants and a systematic revision of † Gerontoformica (Hymenoptera:...
    155 KB (17,346 words) - 14:02, 16 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mammal
    stage); common bottlenose dolphins; orcas; and false killer whales. Eusociality is the highest level of social organisation. These societies have an...
    223 KB (23,161 words) - 08:19, 22 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Evolution
    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...
    240 KB (24,924 words) - 00:24, 21 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Platycerium bifurcatum
    hypothesis that common staghorn ferns may display an incipient form of eusociality. Platycerium bifurcatum is cultivated as an ornamental plant for gardens...
    5 KB (376 words) - 03:36, 7 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Paleontology
    PMC 34068. PMID 11087846. Wilson, E.O. & Hölldobler, B. (September 2005). "Eusociality: Origin and consequences". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
    102 KB (10,168 words) - 17:07, 18 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Trematoda
    liver flukes. One species of tremtaoda, Haplorchis pumilio, has evolved eusociality involving a colony of them creating a class of sterile soldiers. One...
    26 KB (3,109 words) - 11:00, 1 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hornet
    Hornets (insects in the genus Vespa) are the largest of the eusocial wasps, and are similar in appearance to yellowjackets, their close relatives. Some...
    26 KB (3,012 words) - 08:58, 29 November 2024