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Towards a general life-history model of the superorganism: predicting the survival, growth and reproduction of ant societies

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Testing the metabolic theory of ecology

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Analytic theories of allometric scaling

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The developmental genetics and physiology of honeybee societies

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The metabolic costs of building ant colonies from variably sized subunits

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Deconstructing the Superorganism: Social Physiology, Groundplans, and Sociogenomics

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A unifying explanation for diverse metabolic scaling in animals and plants

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One Giant Leap: How Insects Achieved Altruism and Colonial Life

(2008) Edward O. Wilson   BIOSCIENCE

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Scaling of metabolism in Helix aspersa snails: changes through ontogeny and response to selection for increased size

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