Monthly Archives: December 2017

Life-histories – changing conditions depending on sociality

• 15 December 2017
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In the past two weeks, we clarified some definitions and examples of social evolution. You may wonder what this means if we consider different bee species and their life-histories. Actually, being a social or solitary…
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Bee societies – from sleeping males to superorganisms

• 8 December 2017
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As we saw last week, bee societies are very variate. Though there are several definitions, there is no black and white, no linearity. This week, I want to give you some examples for associations between…
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Social evolution – living with the family or a single life

• 1 December 2017
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The subject of this month's series may seem a bit abstract at a first glance - social evolution. What's that? In a nutshell, it means the evolution of species in which individuals instead of living on…
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