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Nature 445, 261-262 (18 January 2007) | doi:10.1038/445261a; Published online 17 January 2007
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Abstract
The most commonly studied social insects are the Hymenoptera, but what about all the rest?
BOOK REVIEWED-The Other Insect Societies
by James T. Costa
Belknap Press: 2006. 812 pp. $59.95, £38.95
For much of its history, the study of insect sociality has been dominated by the study of ants, bees and wasps (the order Hymenoptera) and driven by a single paradigm (genetic relatedness and kin selection). The other social arthropods have been largely ignored or relegated to fringe status.
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