Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword xi
4. PART ONE Transitions in Social Evolution
5. Introduction 1
6. CHAPTER ONE The Evolution of Social Insect Mating Systems 3
7. CHAPTER TWO The Evolution of Queen Numbers in Ants: From One to Many and Back 26
8. CHAPTER THREE Aging of Social Insects 51
9. CHAPTER FOUR The Ecological Setting of Social Evolution: The Demography of Ant Populations 74
10. CHAPTER FIVE Control of Termite Caste Differentiation 105
11. CHAPTER SIX Termites: An Alternative Road to Eusociality and the Importance of Group Benefits in Social Insects 128
12. CHAPTER SEVEN The Evolution of Communal Behavior in Bees and Wasps: An Alternative to Eusociality 148
13. PART TWO Communication
14. Introduction 171
15. CHAPTER EIGHT Cue Diversity and Social Recognition 173
16. CHAPTER NINE Adaptations in the Olfactory System of Social Hymenoptera 195
17. CHAPTER TEN Fertility Signaling as a General Mechanism of Regulating Reproductive Division of Labor in Ants 220
18. CHAPTER ELEVEN Vibrational Signals in Social Wasps: A Role in Caste Determination? 243
19. CHAPTER TWELVE Convergent Evolution of Food Recruitment Mechanisms in Bees and Wasps 266
20. CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Organization of Social Foraging in Ants: Energetics and Communication 289
21. PART THREE Neurogenetic Basis of Social Behavior
22. Introduction 311
23. CHAPTER FOURTEEN Behavioral Genetics in Social Insects 315
24. CHAPTER FIFTEEN Sensory Thresholds, Learning, and the Division of Foraging Labor in the Honey Bee 335
25. CHAPTER SIXTEEN Social Life from Solitary Regulatory Networks: A Paradigm for Insect Sociality 357
26. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Social Brains and Behavior—Past and Present 377
27. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Plasticity in the Circadian Clock and the Temporal Organization of Insect Societies 402
28. PART FOUR Theoretical Perspectives on Social Organization
29. Introduction 433
30. CHAPTER NINETEEN The Dawn of a Golden Age in Mathematical Insect Sociobiology 437
31. CHAPTER TWENTY Positive Feedback, Convergent Collective Patterns, and Social Transitions in Arthropods 460
32. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Division of Labor in the Context of Complexity 483
33. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Insect Societies as Models for Collective Decision Making 503
34. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE From Social Behavior to Molecules: Models and Modules in the Middle 525
35. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Social Insects as Models in Epidemiology: Establishing the Foundation for an Interdisciplinary Approach to Disease and Sociality 545
36. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Social Insects and the Individuality Thesis: Cohesion and the Colony as a Selectable Individual 572
37. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Social Insects, Evo-Devo, and the Novelty Problem: The Advantage of “Natural Experiments” Sensu Boveri 590
38. Acknowledgments 609
39. Index 611