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New Research Questions a Textbook Theory of How Insect Societies Evolve

9 August 2026 at 12:57
Soldier Big Headed Ant With WorkersASU 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 [...]
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