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Behaviour and Social Evolution of Wasps The Communal Aggregation Hypothesis
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Behaviour and Social Evolution of Wasps The Communal Aggregation Hypothesis (Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution) Unknown - 1993

by Yosiaki Ito


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In this book, Yosiaki Ito presents data on tropical wasps which suggests that kin-selection has been over-emphasized as an evolutionary explanation of sociality. He concentrates on the Vespidae (paper wasps and hornets), a group much discussed by evolutionary biologists because it exhibits all stages of social evolution - subsociality, primitive eusociality and advanced eusociality. The author reports field observations by himself and others in Central America, Asia and Australia, showing that multiple egg-layers in a nest are not uncommon. Because coexistence of many queens leads to lower relatedness among colony members than in single-queen colonies, he suggests that kin-selection may not be the most powerful force determining observed social patterns. Instead, subsocial wasps may first have aggregated for defence purposes in habitats with a high risk of predation, with mutualistic associations among many queens. Through parental manipulation and then kin-selection, differentiation into within-generation castes may have followed.

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  • Title Behaviour and Social Evolution of Wasps The Communal Aggregation Hypothesis (Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution)
  • Author Yosiaki Ito
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  • Edition First Edition
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford
  • Date March 18, 1993
  • ISBN 9780198546832
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