Honey Bee Social Evolution

Honey Bee Social Evolution

Group Formation, Behavior, and Preeminence

Delaplane, Keith S.

Johns Hopkins University Press

01/2025

504

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9781421450032

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Preface
Part I. Structures of Honey Bee Social Evolution
Chapter 1. Honey Bee Social Evolution and Why It Matters
Chapter 2. Organismality, Individuality, and the Preeminence of Group Formation
Chapter 3. The Honey Bee, Life at Two Levels
Chapter 4. First Came the Nest
Chapter 5. Grades of Sociality
Chapter 6. Altruism and the Emergence of Simple Eusociality
Chapter 7. Complex Eusociality: Restraining Conflict in the Honey Bee Superorganism
Chapter 8. Complex Eusociality: Division of Labor and Evolution of Caste
Chapter 9. Complex Eusociality: Polyandry and Its Consequences
Part II. Emergent Properties and Outcomes of Social Evolution
10. Emergent Properties and the Honey Bee Superorganism
11. Thermoregulation
12. Comb Construction and Use Patterns
13. Regulators of Colony and Body Size in the Honey Bee Superorganism
14. Mechanisms and Evolution of Dance Language
15. Group Decision-Making
16. Evolution of Reproductive Swarming
17. Evolution of Defense Behavior
18. Mechanisms and Evolution of Social Immunity
19. Nest Symbionts
20. Senescence and Mortality
Part III. Honey Bee Phylogeography
Chapter 21. The Corbiculate Bees
Chapter 22. The Genus Apis and Phylogeography of Apis mellifera
Part IV. Beyond the Honey Bee Superorganism
Chapter 23. Who Gets to Be Queen?
Chapter 24. Anarchy and Social Dissolution
Chapter 25. The Eusocial Primate
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Honey bee, Apis mellifera, social evolution, social insects, group selection, kin selection, superorganism