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«I hope that my study kind of makes the debate go away,» says Amro Zayed, an entomologist who studies social insects at York University in Toronto and is co-author of one of the new reports.
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You will find many social behaviors are not unique to humans at all, there are parallels throughout the animal, and insect kingdooms.
After a brilliant first day at the social insect conference held at Royal Holloway, University of London, the second day was also filled with interesting and stimulating talks.
Evolutionary biologist Heike Feldhaar, who studies ants at the University of Würzburg, Germany, says the new study is interesting because it highlights the growing awareness that factors other than just relatedness are important in the lifestyle of social insects.
When these insects go into swarm mode, they don't just get super social, they also completely change physically, becoming stronger, darker and much more mobile, says study co-author Swidbert Ott, a research fellow at Cambridge.
Caravan suggests that diseases may have helped to drive the evolution of soldier castes, at least in some species of social insects.
Instead of comparing social insects with solitary ones, Farris, a neurobiologist at West Virginia University in Morgantown, looked into the past.
PD Dr. Martin Hasselmann has been the director of the research group «Population Genetics of Social Insects» at the University of Cologne as a DFG Heisenberg stipendiary since May 2012.
Behavioural scientists usually assume that observation and imitation are at the heart of social learning, but social insects such as bees can also transmit information through touch, vibration and smell.