The Evolution of Eusociality

Theoretical Ecology: BIOL765
Department of Biological Sciences
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29208
October 1, 1998

Readings:

Trivers, R. L. and Hare, H. 1976. Haplodiploidy and the evolution of the social insects. Science 191: 249-263.

Jarvis, J. U., O'Riain, M. J., Bennett, N. C. and Sherman, P. W. 1994. Mammalian eusociality: a family affair. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 9: 47-51.

Keller, L. and Reeve, H. K. 1994. Partitioning of reproduction in animal societies. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 9: 98-102.