How To Use Social insect In A Sentence
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Common wasps are social insects and live in nests of up to around 10,000 workers.
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So having sterile offspring is not an evolutionary disadvantage, unless it results in extinction, then it is. angryoldfatman: For social insects to have evolved, at some point having sterile offspring had to be advantageous for the organism in question.
At What Level did this Evolve?
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Relatedness concepts have dominated the discussion on the evolution and maintenance of eusociality in social insects.
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The naked and Damaraland mole-rats are the only known eusocial mammals, behaving like social insects by living in a colony with a single breeding female and related, reproductively suppressed, workers and soldiers.
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Common wasps are social insects and live in nests of up to around 10,000 workers.
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In many social insects, kin selection has led to the evolution of sterile workers which are behaviorally or morphologically specialized for colony defense.
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Scientists have long believed that queen pheromones regulate caste development in social insects, but this finding is only the second such discovery in the past 50 years - when the term pheromone was coined by scientists.
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ants are social insects
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Various models have been presented to account for division of labor in social insects.
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For example, ants, termites, many bees, and some wasps are social insects that form organized communities.
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The ant is a social insect.
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Volume one comprises eight chapters which introduce social insects and the factors that separate them from their less cooperative allies.
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However, clear evidence of nepotism in the rearing of queens in social insects is limited and controversial.
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The ant is a social insect.
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Common wasps are social insects and live in nests of up to around 10,000 workers.
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\ "Beekeepers all around the world are noticing their bees dwindle and disappear, \" says the professor of apiculture and social insects.
Craig and Marc Kielburger: To Bee or Not To Bee
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Social insects, such as ants, live in large colonies.
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It's an example of self-organizing cooperative behavior, and it's found among ants, bees, and other social insects.
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Beekeepers all around the world are noticing their bees dwindle and disappear," says the professor of apiculture and social insects.
Craig and Marc Kielburger: To Bee or Not To Bee
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The initiation of foraging during the life course of honeybee workers is of central interest to understanding the division of labor in social insects, a central theme in sociobiology and behavioral research.
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Eusocial insect colonies are frequently headed by multiple reproductive queens.
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Brave New World shows how dehumanizing it would be for human beings to be so designed that they gave up individual freedom for the stable order of a social insect colony.
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There seems to be the implicit assumption that queens of social insects have little or no cost of reproduction because they are amply supplied with resources by their workers.
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This is applicable especially, but not exclusively, to so-called social insects such as bees, wasps, ants and termites.
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One of the baffling things about social insects such as ants is how their co-operative behaviour has evolved.
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Most bees and wasps are social insects.
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Studying more on social insects, he knew that males existed, but were rarely as powerful as the queen.
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Nevertheless, these volumes have drawn together many little-known areas of social insect and spider biology in lucid accounts.
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Nevertheless, these volumes have drawn together many little-known areas of social insect and spider biology in lucid accounts.
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These two ideas have been remarkably powerful in explaining animal behaviour, particularly that of the social insects (and their creepy mammalian mimics, the naked mole rats).
