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Relatedness, conflict, and the evolution of eusociality. [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2015 The evolution of sterile worker castes in eusocial insects was a major problem in evolutionary theory until Hamilton developed a method called inclusive fitness.
Xiaoyun Liao +2 more
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Some agreement on kin selection and eusociality? [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2015 The authors of "Relatedness, Conflict, and the Evolution of Eusociality" respond to objections raised by Martin Nowak and Benjamin Allen.
David C Queller +2 more
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Eusociality and Cooperation [PDF]
, 2001 The evolution of eusociality, here defined as the emergence of societies with reproductive division of labour and cooperative brood care, was first seen as a challenge to Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. Why should individuals permanently forgo direct reproduction to help other individuals to reproduce?
Keller L., Chapuisat M.
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Haplodiploidy and the Evolution of Eusociality: Worker Reproduction [PDF]
The American Naturalist, 2013 Hamilton's haplodiploidy hypothesis suggests that the relatively higher relatedness of full sisters in haplodiploid populations promotes altruistic sib rearing and, consequently, the evolution of eusociality. This haplodiploidy effect works when some broods have a relatively female-biased sex ratio and other broods have a relatively male-biased sex ...
Alpedrinha, Joao +2 more
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Eusociality through conflict dissolution [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2020 Eusociality, where largely unreproductive offspring help their mothers reproduce, is a major form of social organization. An increasingly documented feature of eusociality is that mothers induce their offspring to help by means of hormones, pheromones or behavioural displays, with evidence often indicating that offspring help voluntarily.
Mauricio González-Forero, Jorge Peña
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A unified model of Hymenopteran preadaptations that trigger the evolutionary transition to eusociality [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2017 The Hymenoptera are thought to have preadaptations responsible for the repeated evolution of eusociality in ants, bees, and wasps. Here, Quiñones and Pen model the evolution of primitively social insects and identify factors that synergistically promote ...
Andrés E. Quiñones, Ido Pen
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Inclusive fitness theorizing invokes phenomena that are not relevant for the evolution of eusociality. [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2015 In this Formal Comment, the authors challenge the claims of a recent theoretical study that genetic relatedness is important in the evolution of eusociality.
Martin A Nowak, Benjamin Allen
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Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality [PDF]
Nature, 2011 Arising from M. A. Nowak, C. E. Tarnita & E. O. Wilson 466, 1057-1062 (2010); Nowak et al. reply. Nowak et al. argue that inclusive fitness theory has been of little value in explaining the natural world, and that it has led to negligible progress in explaining the evolution of eusociality.
Abbot, Patrick +136 more
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Lifetime monogamy and the evolution of eusociality [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2009 All evidence currently available indicates that obligatory sterile eusocial castes only arose via the association of lifetime monogamous parents and offspring. This is consistent with Hamilton's rule ( br s > r o
Jacobus J. Boomsma, Boomsma, Jacobus J
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Maternal manipulation of offspring size can trigger the evolution of eusociality in promiscuous species. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S AEusocial organisms typically live in colonies with one reproductive queen supported by thousands of sterile workers. It is widely believed that monogamous mating is a precondition for the evolution of eusociality.
Rees-Baylis E, Pen I, Kreider JJ.
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