Discover how naked mole-rat colonies work, from a single queen to worker care of pups in one of nature’s rare eusocial ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Scientists at Harvard University have sketched a new map of the "evolutionary labyrinth" species must traverse to reach eusociality, the rare but spectacularly successful social ...

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 ...

For most of the past half century, much of sociobiological theory has focused on the phenomenon called eusociality, where adult members are divided into reproductive and (partially) non-reproductive ...

It’s a problem that has been debated ever since Darwin: how have hundreds of species of insects and other animals evolved altruistic helpers that give up their own reproduction for the sake of ...