The evolution of eusociality

Nature

Volumn 466, Issue 7310, 2010, Pages 1057-1062

  Nowak, Martin A ^a   Tarnita, Corina E ^a   Wilson, Edward O ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EUSOCIALITY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HOMINID; INCLUSIVE FITNESS; KIN SELECTION; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL; SOCIAL INSECT; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ECOLOGY; EMPIRICISM; ESOCIALITY; HAMILTON SCALE; INSECT SOCIETY; KIN SELECTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECTS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SELECTION, GENETIC; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 77956167704     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09205     Document Type: Review

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