I’ve always thought that eusocial organisms, like termites, ants, and some bees, were rather fascinating to study, but no one really knows how eusociality developed because these advanced taxa evolved so long ago. What’s cool now, though, is that Bryan N. Danforth has started looking at halictid bees, which are primitively eusocial, and has found that studying their behavior gives some insight into the early evolution of the advance eusocial taxa. If you want to learn more about this, you should read his paper.
-Elizabeth Richardson
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