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Animal Behavior - Eusociality
Eusociality
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Biology
Undergraduate 4
05/03/2010

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Three characteristics of Eusociality
Definition
Overlapping Generations
Reproductive division of labor
Cooperative care of offspring
Term
Castes
Definition
physiologically, morphologically, behaviorally different forms of an organisms that perform specialized labor in a colony
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Reproductive Skew
Definition
describes the degree of eusociality
The proportion of individuals that give up reproduction
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6 Ecological Factors for Eusociality
Definition
High dispersal risk
Group defense
Patchily distributed food
Low reproductive potential of solitaires
Nest inheritance
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