Social insect colonies have evolved collective immune defences against parasites. These
'social immune systems' result from the cooperation of the individual group members to …

Termites are a clade of eusocial wood-feeding roaches with> 3000 described species.
Eusociality emerged~ 150 million years ago in the ancestor of modern termites, which, since …

In The Genesis of Animal Play, Gordon Burghardt examines the origins and evolution of play
in humans and animals. He asks what play might mean in our understanding of evolution …

Phylogenetic relationships among subgroups of cockroaches and termites are still matters of
debate. Their divergence times and major phenotypic transitions during evolution are also …

Animal Traditions maintains that the assumption that the selection of genes supplies both a
sufficient explanation of the evolution and a true description of its course is, despite its …

Microbial ecologists strive to understand the factors that influence the structures and
functions of microbial communities. At first glance, understanding these communities might …

" As someone who has spent forty years in psychology with a long-standing interest in
evolution, I'll just assimilate Howard Bloom's accomplishment and my amazement."-DAVID …

Despite more than half a century of research, the evolutionary origin of termites remains
unresolved [1–3]. A clear picture of termite ancestry is crucial for understanding how these …

Eusociality in Isoptera (termites) converges along many lines with colony organization and
highly social behavior in the phylogenetically distinct insect order Hymenoptera (ants, bees …

Termite societies display a wide array of polymorphism patterns, rivalled only by the most
complex ant societies. Caste differentiation in termites occurs when immatures of either sex …