Working-class royalty: bees beat the caste system
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Working-class royalty: bees beat the caste system.
The struggle among social classes or castes is well known in humans. Here, we show that caste inequality similarly affects societies of ants, bees and wasps, where castes are morphologically distinct and workers have greatly reduced reproductive potential compared with queens. In social insects, an individual normally has no control over its own fate, whether queen or worker, as this is sociall...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biology Letters
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1744-9561,1744-957X
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2004.0281