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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"superorganismality"”.
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Mechanisms for the Evolution of Superorganismality in Ants
… 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 process. Understanding the origin and elaboration of superorganismality is a major focus of research …
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Insect Development and Evolution: Perspectives on Individual and Colony-Level Phenotypes
… an irreversible major evolutionary transition to superorganismality. Social groups of this type are fundamentally different than monomorphic cooperative breeders, and can meaningfully be compared to metazoan organisms with differentiated germ and soma.</p>