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Eusociality (Gr**** εὖ eu "good" and social) is the
highest level of
organization of sociality. It is
defined by the
following characteristics: cooperative...
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Eusociality evolved repeatedly in
different orders of animals,
notably termites and the
Hymenoptera (the wasps, bees, and ants). This 'true sociality'...
- The
highest degree of
sociality recognized by
sociobiologists is
eusociality. A
eusocial taxon is one that
exhibits overlapping adult generations, reproductive...
- nine)
evolutions of
eusociality within Hymenoptera.
Haplodiploidy is
neither necessary nor
sufficient for
eusociality. Some
eusocial species such as termites...
- tend to be
larger than the males. They are the
group for
which the term '
eusocial' was
first coined by entomologist,
Suzanne Batra. Most
halictids nest in...
- diverse,
cosmopolitan family of wasps,
including nearly all the
known eusocial wasps (such as
Polistes fuscatus,
Vespa orientalis, and Ves**** germanica)...
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Ropalidia marginata is an Old
World species of
paper wasp. It is
primitively eusocial, not
showing the same bias in
brood care seen in
other social insects with...
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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...
- the
Early Miocene (25.4–18.2 mya)—
eusocial and
solitary mongooses. The
meerkat belongs to the
monophyletic eusocial mongoose clade along with several...
- organisms.
Other problematic cases include colonial organisms; a
colony of
eusocial insects is
organised adaptively, and has germ-soma specialisation, with...
