Native bee key to socialevolution: Bridge between flying solo or as a colony flinders RSocPublishing
Evidence of how individuals that live a solitary lifestyle can transition to colonial life, involving sterile castes that seemingly defy Darwin's natural selection theory, unlocks a key biological question about evolution, they say.
To overcome this obstacle, the Flinders University team has studied Amphylaeus morosus, a unique Australian native bee that only recently crossed the threshold from individual reproduction to"selfless" behavior within a colony. "This kind of extreme reproductive skew and high relatedness is very unexpected and challenges our theories about how social complexity evolves," says senior author, Flinders University Associate Professor Michael Schwarz."It seems that some species can quickly skip multiple rungs of the evolutionary social ladder.
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