Chapter 2 Opener These sterile worker weaver ants labor together to make leaf nests for the reproductive benefit of other ants. Why?

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Chapter 2 Opener These sterile worker weaver
ants labor together to make leaf nests for the
reproductive benefit of other ants. Why?
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Figure 2.1 A group of worker termites escorted
by a single large soldier back to their colony
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Figure 2.2 A huge number of tiny sterile
termites built this immense home for their colony
in Western Australia
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Figure 2.3 Sacrifices by social insect workers
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Figure 2.3 Sacrifices by social insect workers
(Part 1)
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Figure 2.3 Sacrifices by social insect workers
(Part 2)
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Figure 2.4 The territories of an Australian
songbird
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Figure 2.4 The territories of an Australian
songbird (Part 1)
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Figure 2.4 The territories of an Australian
songbird (Part 2)
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Figure 2.5 Gary Larsons cartoon of presumably
suicidal lemmings headed into the ocean
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Figure 2.6 How to achieve indirect fitness
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Figure 2.7 A foundress female wasp
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Figure 2.8 A colony of Dictyostelium discoideum
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Figure 2.9 Haplodiploidy and the evolution of
eusociality in the Hymenoptera
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Figure 2.9 Haplodiploidy and the evolution of
eusociality in the Hymenoptera (Part 1)
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Figure 2.9 Haplodiploidy and the evolution of
eusociality in the Hymenoptera (Part 2)
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Figure 2.9 Haplodiploidy and the evolution of
eusociality in the Hymenoptera (Part 3)
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Figure 2.9 Haplodiploidy and the evolution of
eusociality in the Hymenoptera (Part 4)
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Figure 2.10 Monogamy and the origin of
eusociality by kin selection in the Hymenoptera
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Box 2.3 How are phylogenetic trees constructed
and what do they mean?
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Box 2.3 How are phylogenetic trees constructed
and what do they mean? (Part 1)
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Box 2.3 How are phylogenetic trees constructed
and what do they mean? (Part 2)
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Figure 2.11 Round dance of honey bees
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Figure 2.12 Waggle dance of honey bees
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Figure 2.12 Waggle dance of honey bees (Part 1)
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Figure 2.12 Waggle dance of honey bees (Part 2)
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Figure 2.13 Testing directional and distance
communication by honey bees
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Figure 2.13 Testing directional and distance
communication by honey bees (Part 1)
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Figure 2.13 Testing directional and distance
communication by honey bees (Part 2)
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Figure 2.14 The nest of an Asian honey bee, Apis
florea, is built out in the open around a branch
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Figure 2.15 Communication by scent marking in a
stingless bee
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Figure 2.16 Evolutionary history of the honey
bee dance communication system
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Figure 2.16 Evolutionary history of the honey
bee dance communication system (Part 1)
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Figure 2.16 Evolutionary history of the honey
bee dance communication system (Part 2)
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Figure 2.17 Workers and the queen monitor the
reproductive behavior of others
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Figure 2.18 Conflict within ant colonies in
which workers that are about to reproduce are
detected by colony mates and physically restrained
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Figure 2.18 Conflict within ant colonies in
which workers that are about to reproduce are
detected by colony mates and physically
restrained (Part 1)
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Figure 2.18 Conflict within ant colonies in
which workers that are about to reproduce are
detected by colony mates and physically
restrained (Part 2)
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Figure 2.19 A test of the effectiveness of
policing
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Figure 2.20 The proportion of males produced by
workers varies among ants, social bees, and
social wasps
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Figure 2.21 Colony kin structure is linked to
queen production in eusocial Melipona bees
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Figure 2.21 Colony kin structure is linked to
queen production in eusocial Melipona bees (Part
1)
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Figure 2.21 Colony kin structure is linked to
queen production in eusocial Melipona bees (Part
2)