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Honey Bee Social Evolution

Name: Honey Bee Social Evolution
Brand: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9781421450032
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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9781421450032

Group Formation, Behavior, and Preeminence

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By Keith S. Delaplane
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: January 22, 2025
Format: HARDBACK
Pages: 512

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What the honey bee can teach us about evolution-and ourselves. How did the honey bee evolve into the complex colonial species that exists today-and what does its evolution have to teach us about our own species? In Honey Bee Social Evolution, entomologist Keith Delaplane uses the humble but charismatic honey bee as a model of social evolution to highlight the many parallels a social insect colony shares with humans and other organisms. Delaplane shows how social processes drive evolution-for honey bee colonies, humans, and other animals. Each chapter spotlights a honey bee colony-level function such as group-level reproduction, task differentiation among cells, group decision-making, social immunity, defense behavior, senescence, anarchy, cancer, and more-all with stunning parallels to those of other organisms. These vivid comparisons, grounded in a practical context, emphasize how natural selection uses a common tool kit to solve similar problems across lineages. By revealing the complex hive of similarities between the honey bee's society and our own, Delaplane hopes to instill an ethos of solidarity with all organic life. The honey bee colony shows how evolution is more than selfish "survival of the fittest," but equally a story of the success of cooperation and altruism.

Keith Delaplane (ATHENS, GA) is a professor of entomology and Walter B. Hill Fellow at the University of Georgia.

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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