Individual versus social complexity, with particular reference to ant colonies
@article{Anderson2001IndividualVS, title={Individual versus social complexity, with particular reference to ant colonies}, author={C. Anderson and D. W. McShea}, journal={Biological Reviews}, year={2001}, volume={76} }
Insect societies – colonies of ants, bees, wasps and termites – vary enormously in their social complexity. Social complexity is a broadly used term that encompasses many individual and colony‐level traits and characteristics such as colony size, polymorphism and foraging strategy. A number of earlier studies have considered the relationships among various correlates of social complexity in insect societies; in this review, we build upon those studies by proposing additional correlates and show… CONTINUE READING
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