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<div>P.S. the seminar is tomorrow (19th) </div>
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<div id="GroupWiseSection_1731939438227_anna.friedel@student.uni-halle.de_FFA5388B14C900009867776461663435_" class="GroupWiseMessageBody"><span class="GroupwiseReplyHeader"><br>>>> Am 18.11.2024 um 15:22, "Anna Friedel" <anna.friedel@student.uni-halle.de> <anna.friedel@student.uni-halle.de> schrieb:<br></span>
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<div class="pYTkkf-JX-ano">Dear all, </div>
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<div class="pYTkkf-JX-ano">maybe this is of interest for some. I guess the seminar goes along the lines of his talk at the IUSSI this year, but the discussion afterwards might be quite interesting</div>
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<div class="pYTkkf-JX-ano">Best, Anna</div>
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<p><strong>FINE SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT</strong></p>
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<p><strong>** 1100 NYC / 1700 Paris **</strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><img class="CToWUd" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=942e5737ed&attid=0.2&permmsgid=msg-f:1815682403210030477&th=193299869c42ed8d&view=fimg&fur=ip&permmsgid=msg-f:1815682403210030477&sz=s0-l75-ft&attbid=ANGjdJ-Xf9-irhVTp_mblpwYqVpfVAjIxoQXPLjwkTFlPzYSqaHiiLlz8zvYfizMzHBkIQ-3KTElXNR8cT5-XFxyyDafly7vv2Y6dUsrLeSuFatMnlqqjgdW3b86Ufw&disp=emb&zw" alt="A person picking up dirt from a blue bowl
Description automatically generated" width="146" height="224" align="left" hspace="12" data-image-whitelisted="" data-bit="iit"><strong>Title: </strong>Abandoning Eusociality because it is Incompatible with Inclusive Fitness Theory</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Summary: </strong>The study of social insects has been haunted by imprecise terminology for more than half a century. Eusociality is not a trait that can respond to selection and no testable predictions can be derived from that term, in sharp contrast with neo-Darwinian inclusive fitness theory. The clash between the two paradigms became apparent around 2010, but the incompatibility has been staring us in the face ever since the 1970s. I will argue that it is crucial to qualitatively distinguish between facultative, condition-dependent altruism and obligate, unconditional altruism, and between reproductive role differentiation in adult dominance hierarchies (skew) and caste differentiation in the organismal colonies of ants, bees, wasps and termites. The arguments that I will present are closely related to my kin-selection interpretation of the Major Transitions in Evolution presented in a recent book.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Boomsma, J.J. & R. Gawne (2018) Superorganismality and caste differentiation as points of no return: how the major evolutionary transitions were lost in translation. Biological Reviews 93, 28-54.</p>
<p>Boomsma, J.J. (2022).<u> </u><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/domains-and-major-transitions-of-social-evolution-9780198746188?lang=en&cc=wf" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/domains-and-major-transitions-of-social-evolution-9780198746188?lang%3Den%26cc%3Dwf&source=gmail&ust=1732024601418000&usg=AOvVaw1VR3K8BxRaLIOyqKsgKT3T">Domains and Major Transitions of Social Evolution - Paperback - Koos Boomsma - Oxford University Press (oup.com</a></p>
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<p><strong>HOW TO ATTEND</strong></p>
<p><br><strong>YouTube channel</strong>. <u><a id="m_1003338812459587834OWA782266cf-7c26-ac1b-e282-7998babfe9bd" title="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClXFO1pLpCTBy7vSwLWH-GA" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClXFO1pLpCTBy7vSwLWH-GA" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClXFO1pLpCTBy7vSwLWH-GA&source=gmail&ust=1732024601418000&usg=AOvVaw0MBQOekstjmJD5ZTdONQQu">https://www.youtube.com/<wbr>channel/UClXFO1pLpCTBy7vSwLWH-<wbr>GA</a></u> This option allows you to view the seminar live (or at a later time), but not engage directly in the discussion (only through the chat function in YouTube).</p>
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<p><strong>ZOOM <u><a id="m_1003338812459587834OWAb49c86e2-8ade-7dd2-7bf2-83bcd94cbfad" title="https://tennessee.zoom.us/j/82238802475" href="https://tennessee.zoom.us/j/82238802475" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://tennessee.zoom.us/j/82238802475&source=gmail&ust=1732024601418000&usg=AOvVaw0OXeKNypWki-xW0N5xdy0A">https://tennessee.zoom.us/j/<wbr>82238802475</a></u></strong></p>
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