Sentences with phrase «which eusociality»
When Hughes's group examined the distribution of monogamous versus polygamous species among the eight branches of the family tree in which eusociality had independently evolved, the researchers concluded that each branch had started with a monogamous species.
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Advanced sociality, or eusociality, a hallmark of which is reproductive specialization into worker and queen castes, is essentially a phenomenon of the group of invertebrates known as arthropods.
The team then attempted to determine which type of society is a more likely precursor to eusociality.
«First, there is no single road map to eusociality — the complex, cooperative social system in which animals behave more like superorganisms than individuals fending for themselves,» said Gene Robinson, a lead on the study who is a professor of entomology and director of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois.