Foreword by Edward O. Wilson ................................... ix
Part one
Transitions in Social Evolution ................................. I
Introduction by Jurgen Gadau
One
The Evolution of Social Insect Mating Systems ................... 3
Jacobus J. Boomsma, Daniel J. C. Kronauer, and
Jes S. Pedersen
Two
The Evolution of Queen Numbers in Ants: From One to Many and
Back ........................................................... 26
Jürgen Heinze and Susanne Foitzik
Three
Aging of Social Insects ........................................ 51
Olav Rueppell
Four
The Ecological Setting of Social Evolution: The Demography of
Ant Populations ................................................ 74
Blaine J. Cole
Five
Control of Termite Caste Differentiation ...................... 105
Colin S. Brent
Six
Termites: An Alternative Road to Eusociality and the
Importance of Group Benefits in Social Insects ................ 128
Judith Korb
Seven
The Evolution of Communal Behavior in Bees and Wasps: An
Alternative to Eusociality .................................... 148
William T. Wcislo and Simon M. Tierney
Part two
Communication ................................................. 171
Introduction by Thomas D. Seeley
Eight
Cue Diversity and Social Recognition .......................... 173
Michael D. Breed and Robert Buchwald
Nine
Adaptations in the Olfactory System of Social Hymenoptera ..... 195
Christoph J. Kleineidam and Wolfgang Rфssler
Ten
Fertility Signaling as a General Mechanism of Regulating
Reproductive Division of Labor in Ants ........................ 220
Christian Peeters and Jürgen Liebig
Eleven
Vibrational Signals in Social Wasps: A Role in Caste
Determination? ................................................ 243
Robert L. Jeanne
Twelve
Convergent Evolution of Food Recruitment Mechanisms in Bees
and Wasps ..................................................... 266
James C. Nieh
Thirteen
The Organization of Social Foraging in Ants: Energetics and
Communication ................................................. 289
Flavio Races
Part three
Neurogenetic Basis of Social Behavior ......................... 311
Introduction by Robert E. Page Jr.
Fourteen
Behavioral Genetics in Social Insects ......................... 315
Jürgen Gadau and Greg J. Hunt
Fifteen
Sensory Thresholds, Learning, and the Division of Foraging
Labor in the Honey Bee ........................................ 335
Ricarda Scheiner and Joachim Erber
Sixteen
Social Life from Solitary Regulatory Networks:
A Paradigm for Insect Sociality ............................... 357
Robert E. Page Jr., Timothy A. Linksvayer, and Gro
V. Amdam
Seventeen
Social Brains and Behavior—Past and Present ................... 377
Wulfila Gronenberg and Andre J. Riveros
Eighteen
Plasticity in the Circadian Clock and the Temporal
Organization of Insect Societies .............................. 402
Guy Bloch
Part Four
Theoretical Perspectives on Social Organization ............... 433
Introduction by Jennifer Fewell
Nineteen
The Dawn of a Golden Age in Mathematical Insect Sociobiology .. 437
Nigel R. Franks, Anna Dornhaus, James A. R. Marshall,
and Francois-Xavier Dechaume Moncharmont
Twenty
Positive Feedback, Convergent Collective Patterns, and
Social Transitions in Arthropods .............................. 460
Raphaël Jeanson and Jean-Louis Deneubourg
Twenty-one
Division of Labor in the Context of Complexity ................ 483
Jennifer Fewell, Shana К Schmidt, and Thomas Taylor
Twenty-two
Insect Societies as Models for Collective Decision Making ..... 503
Stephen C. Pratt
Twenty-three
From Social Behavior to Molecules: Models and Modules in
the Middle .................................................... 525
Andrew B. Barron and Gene E. Robinson
Twenty-four
Social Insects as Models in Epidemiology: Establishing the
Foundation for an Interdisciplinary Approach to Disease and
Sociality ..................................................... 545
Nina H. Fefferman and James F.A. Traniello
Twenty-five
Social Insects and the Individuality Thesis: Cohesion and
the Colony as a Selectable Individual ......................... 572
Andrew Hamilton, Nathan R. Smith, and Matthew H. Haber
Twenty-six
Social Insects, Evo-Devo, and the Novelty Problem: The
Advantage of "Natural Experiments" Sensu Boveri ............... 590
Manfred Laubichler and Jürgen Gadau
Acknowledgments ............................................... 609
Index ......................................................... 611
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