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Die soziologische Abstammungslehre

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THE author of this work thinks that animal-societies have played an important part in the evolution of species. They occur, as is well known, in various forms. Among insects the oldest phylogenetically is that of the termites, where the non-breeders or neuter workers are of both sexes. Among bees the workers are arrested females, who may be, however, occasionally reproductive. The queens and the drones do no work. Among ants the arrested females or workers are occasionally reproductive; the males do no work; the queens may do some.

Die soziologische Abstammungslehre.

Von Dr. Hermann Schulte-Vaerting. Pp. 136. (Leipzig: Georg Thieme, 1923.) 1s. 9d.

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THOMSON, J. Die soziologische Abstammungslehre. Nature 113, 74–75 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113074a0

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