It's a cliché to say it takes a village to raise a child, but it's a cliché some creatures have taken to heart. A handful of animals, including ants, bees, termites, and some birds, are what ...

Amongst species of colonial snapping shrimp, the capacity for defense versus reproduction in queens varies with the level of cooperation, according to a study published March 14, 2018 in the ...

Eusocial animals express complex behaviors, like group decision-making. Evolutionary biologists have asked how and why eusociality has evolved, and what we can learn from eusocial organisms. Aa Aa Aa ...

In the world of evolutionary research, scientists studying the evolution of eusocial societies have traditionally relied on information gathered from studying terrestrial insects. A group of ...

Inclusive fitness theory predicts that by investing more resources in certain close relatives, an individual can maximize the transmission rate of its own genes to the next generation via reproduction ...

Ants live in incredibly organized, socially complex colonies where the division of labor is clearly defined. Each ant has a job to do, and by working together, the colony can achieve what a single ant ...

Colonies sustain themselves even when Messor structor males are absent. Workers possess 50 percent ancestry from each of the two species. The queen manipulates reproduction to maintain colony ...