[Mitarbeiter.zoologie] cool new paper on social evolution

[Eckart Stolle]

FYI

Yusaku Ohkubo, Tatsuhiro Yamamoto, Natsuki Ogusu, Saori Watanabe, Yuuka
Murakami, Norihiro Yagi, Eisuke Hasegawa. The benefits of grouping as a
main driver of social evolution in a halictine bee. Science Advances,
2018; 4 (10): e1700741 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1700741
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/10/e1700741


"When researchers at @HokkaidoUni studied the foraging and nesting
behaviors of the eusocial sweat bee Lasioglossum baleicum ... they found
that fitness was more a result of the bees' cooperative behaviour than
of their genetic similarity."

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-10/hu-egd092818.php



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Dr. Eckart Stolle
Institut für Biology
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Hoher Weg 8, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany
eckart.stolle at zoologie.uni-halle.de
0049 345 55 26502
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