Deconstructing superorganisms and societies to address big questions in biology
Social insect societies are long-standing models for understanding social behaviour and evolution. Unlike other advanced biological societies (such as the multicellular body), the component parts of social insect societies can be easily deconstructed and manipulated. Recent methodological and theore...
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| author | Kennedy, P Baron, G Qiu, B Freitak, D Helanterä, H Hunt, ER Manfredini, F O'Shea-Wheller, T Patalano, S Pull, CD Sasaki, T Taylor, D Wyatt, CDR Sumner, S |
| author_facet | Kennedy, P Baron, G Qiu, B Freitak, D Helanterä, H Hunt, ER Manfredini, F O'Shea-Wheller, T Patalano, S Pull, CD Sasaki, T Taylor, D Wyatt, CDR Sumner, S |
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| description | Social insect societies are long-standing models for understanding social behaviour and evolution. Unlike other advanced biological societies (such as the multicellular body), the component parts of social insect societies can be easily deconstructed and manipulated. Recent methodological and theoretical innovations have exploited this trait to address an expanded range of biological questions. We illustrate the broadening range of biological insight coming from social insect biology with four examples. These new frontiers promote open-minded, interdisciplinary exploration of one of the richest and most complex of biological phenomena: sociality. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:6292ffce-a461-4b7d-b954-3bb30ddf76762022-03-26T18:07:09ZDeconstructing superorganisms and societies to address big questions in biologyJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:6292ffce-a461-4b7d-b954-3bb30ddf7676EnglishSymplectic ElementsElsevier2017Kennedy, PBaron, GQiu, BFreitak, DHelanterä, HHunt, ERManfredini, FO'Shea-Wheller, TPatalano, SPull, CDSasaki, TTaylor, DWyatt, CDRSumner, SSocial insect societies are long-standing models for understanding social behaviour and evolution. Unlike other advanced biological societies (such as the multicellular body), the component parts of social insect societies can be easily deconstructed and manipulated. Recent methodological and theoretical innovations have exploited this trait to address an expanded range of biological questions. We illustrate the broadening range of biological insight coming from social insect biology with four examples. These new frontiers promote open-minded, interdisciplinary exploration of one of the richest and most complex of biological phenomena: sociality. |
| spellingShingle | Kennedy, P Baron, G Qiu, B Freitak, D Helanterä, H Hunt, ER Manfredini, F O'Shea-Wheller, T Patalano, S Pull, CD Sasaki, T Taylor, D Wyatt, CDR Sumner, S Deconstructing superorganisms and societies to address big questions in biology |
| title | Deconstructing superorganisms and societies to address big questions in biology |
| title_full | Deconstructing superorganisms and societies to address big questions in biology |
| title_fullStr | Deconstructing superorganisms and societies to address big questions in biology |
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| title_short | Deconstructing superorganisms and societies to address big questions in biology |
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