The evolution of eusociality: no risk‐return tradeoff but the ecology matters

Hamilton's rule is essential but insufficient for understanding monogamy's role in social evolution

(2019) Peter Nonacs   Royal Society Open Science

Evolution of social behaviour and the two elements of causation

(2019) Tuomas K. Pernu et al.   OIKOS

Queen Longevity and Fecundity Affect Conflict with Workers over Resource Inheritance in a Social Insect

(2018) Edward J. Almond et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

A unified model of Hymenopteran preadaptations that trigger the evolutionary transition to eusociality

(2017) Andrés E. Quiñones et al.   Nature Communications

Evolutionary Stability of Jointly Evolving Traits in Subdivided Populations

(2016) Charles Mullon et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Invasion fitness, inclusive fitness, and reproductive numbers in heterogeneous populations

(2016) Laurent Lehmann et al.   EVOLUTION

No Synergy Needed: Ecological Constraints Favor the Evolution of Eusociality

(2015) Piret Avila et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Relatedness, Conflict, and the Evolution of Eusociality

(2015) Xiaoyun Liao et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The costs and benefits of sociality in a facultatively social bee

(2014) Sandra M. Rehan et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Resolving the evolution of sterile worker castes: a window on the advantages and disadvantages of monogamy

(2014) P. Nonacs   Biology Letters

The risk-return trade-off between solitary and eusocial reproduction

(2014) Feng Fu et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The role of per-capita productivity in the evolution of small colony sizes in ants

(2013) Boris H. Kramer et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Impact of helpers on colony productivity in a primitively eusocial bee

(2013) Nayuta Brand et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Caste determination through mating in primitively eusocial societies

(2013) Eric R. Lucas et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Correction

(2012) Andy Gardner et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Reproductive queue without overt conflict in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata

(2012) A. Bang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Monogamy and high relatedness do not preferentially favor the evolution of cooperation

(2011) Peter Nonacs   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The validity and value of inclusive fitness theory

(2011) A. F. G. Bourke   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Nest Inheritance Is the Missing Source of Direct Fitness in a Primitively Eusocial Insect

(2011) E. Leadbeater et al.   SCIENCE

Monogamy and haplodiploidy act in synergy to promote the evolution of eusociality

(2011) Lutz Fromhage et al.   Nature Communications

Inclusive Fitness from Multitype Branching Processes

(2010) Geoff Wild   BULLETIN OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY

Cryptic Plasticity Underlies a Major Evolutionary Transition

(2010) Jeremy Field et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Cooperative Nesting in the Multivoltine Large Carpenter Bee Xylocopa sulcatipes Maa (Apoidea: Anthophoridae): Do Helpers Gain or Lose to Solitary Females?

(2010) Roland E. Stark   ETHOLOGY

Workers, sexuals, or both? Optimal allocation of resources to reproduction and growth in annual insect colonies

(2009) K. Poitrineau et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

The queen is dead-long live the workers: intraspecific parasitism by workers in the stingless beeMelipona scutellaris

(2009) D. A. ALVES et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Lifetime monogamy and the evolution of eusociality

(2009) J. J. Boomsma   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Colony fusion and worker reproduction after queen loss in army ants

(2009) D. J. C. Kronauer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES