#eusociality — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #eusociality, aggregated by home.social.
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• The Mathematics of Altruism: An explanation of "Hamilton’s Rule" (rb>c) and how kin selection explains seemingly selfless behaviors like meerkat babysitting.• #Eusociality and the Colony-as-Organism: A study of naked mole rats and Macrotermes termites, where individuals function as disposable "skin cells" within a singular, sprawling survival machine.
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• The Mathematics of Altruism: An explanation of "Hamilton’s Rule" (rb>c) and how kin selection explains seemingly selfless behaviors like meerkat babysitting.• #Eusociality and the Colony-as-Organism: A study of naked mole rats and Macrotermes termites, where individuals function as disposable "skin cells" within a singular, sprawling survival machine.
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• The Mathematics of Altruism: An explanation of "Hamilton’s Rule" (rb>c) and how kin selection explains seemingly selfless behaviors like meerkat babysitting.• #Eusociality and the Colony-as-Organism: A study of naked mole rats and Macrotermes termites, where individuals function as disposable "skin cells" within a singular, sprawling survival machine.
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• The Mathematics of Altruism: An explanation of "Hamilton’s Rule" (rb>c) and how kin selection explains seemingly selfless behaviors like meerkat babysitting.• #Eusociality and the Colony-as-Organism: A study of naked mole rats and Macrotermes termites, where individuals function as disposable "skin cells" within a singular, sprawling survival machine.
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• The Mathematics of Altruism: An explanation of "Hamilton’s Rule" (rb>c) and how kin selection explains seemingly selfless behaviors like meerkat babysitting.• #Eusociality and the Colony-as-Organism: A study of naked mole rats and Macrotermes termites, where individuals function as disposable "skin cells" within a singular, sprawling survival machine.
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Ants – with their wise #farming practices and efficient navigation techniques – could #inspire solutions for some #human problems
#Eusociality #Entomology #Science #Ants #Insects #AculeataFormicidae #Aculeata #Formicidae #Hymenoptera