Frontmatter
Contents
Foreword
PART ONE Transitions in Social Evolution
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE The Evolution of Social Insect Mating Systems
CHAPTER TWO The Evolution of Queen Numbers in Ants: From One to Many and Back
CHAPTER THREE Aging of Social Insects
CHAPTER FOUR The Ecological Setting of Social Evolution: The Demography of Ant Populations
CHAPTER FIVE Control of Termite Caste Differentiation
CHAPTER SIX Termites: An Alternative Road to Eusociality and the Importance of Group Benefits in Social Insects
CHAPTER SEVEN The Evolution of Communal Behavior in Bees and Wasps: An Alternative to Eusociality
PART TWO Communication
Introduction
CHAPTER EIGHT Cue Diversity and Social Recognition
CHAPTER NINE Adaptations in the Olfactory System of Social Hymenoptera
CHAPTER TEN Fertility Signaling as a General Mechanism of Regulating Reproductive Division of Labor in Ants
CHAPTER ELEVEN Vibrational Signals in Social Wasps: A Role in Caste Determination?
CHAPTER TWELVE Convergent Evolution of Food Recruitment Mechanisms in Bees and Wasps
CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Organization of Social Foraging in Ants: Energetics and Communication
PART THREE Neurogenetic Basis of Social Behavior
Introduction
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Behavioral Genetics in Social Insects
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Sensory Thresholds, Learning, and the Division of Foraging Labor in the Honey Bee
CHAPTER SIXTEEN Social Life from Solitary Regulatory Networks: A Paradigm for Insect Sociality
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Social Brains and Behavior-Past and Present
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Plasticity in the Circadian Clock and the Temporal Organization of Insect Societies
PART FOUR Theoretical Perspectives on Social Organization
Introduction
CHAPTER NINETEEN The Dawn of a Golden Age in Mathematical Insect Sociobiology
CHAPTER TWENTY Positive Feedback, Convergent Collective Patterns, and Social Transitions in Arthropods
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Division of Labor in the Context of Complexity
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Insect Societies as Models for Collective Decision Making
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE From Social Behavior to Molecules: Models and Modules in the Middle
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Social Insects as Models in Epidemiology: Establishing the Foundation for an Interdisciplinary Approach to Disease and Sociality
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Social Insects and the Individuality Thesis: Cohesion and the Colony as a Selectable Individual
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Social Insects, Evo-Devo, and the Novelty Problem: The Advantage of "Natural Experiments" Sensu Boveri
Acknowledgments
Index