New Research Questions a Textbook Theory of How Insect Societies Evolve
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New Research Questions a Textbook Theory of How Insect Societies Evolve
ASU researchers found that genetics alone cannot explain the origins of eusociality. Inside an ant colony, queens reproduce while workers care for young and maintain a society built around shared labor. For more than six decades, evolutionary biologists have debated whether this extraordinary arrangement, known as eusociality, arose partly because ants, bees, and wasps share [...]
Researchers at Arizona State University (ASU) have published a study that challenges the prevailing genetic explanation for the origin of eusociality in insects, such as ants, bees, and wasps. The research, published in the journal Current Biology, suggests that haplodiploidy, a system of genetic inheritance, is not the only determining factor in the formation of complex societies among these organisms. ASU research challenges genetic explanatio…
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