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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"reproductive division of labor"”.
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Mechanisms for the Evolution of Superorganismality in Ants
… as superorganisms; they exhibit very high levels of within-colony cooperation, and very low levels of within-colony conflict. The evolution of such superorganismality has occurred multiple times across the animal phylogeny, and indeed, origins of multicellularity represent the same evolutionary …
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The consequences and implications of ecology on body size distributions in social insects
The study of life history traits is central to the fields of ecology, behavior, and evolution. Life history theory explores investment into key biological characteristics that figure directly into the reproductive success and survival of an organism (e.g. size at birth, age at maturity, and size at …
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Safer without Sex?
… all known ants, are typically characterized by a reproductive division of labor between queens, who are inseminated and reproduce, and virgin workers, who engage in foraging, nest maintenance and brood care. In most species workers have little reproductive options left: They usually produce …