HIGH BAR. “For the binding effects of group selection to outweigh the dissolutive effects of individual direct selection, the candidate insect species evidently must have only a very short evolutionary distance to travel, such that no more than a very small number of emergent traits are needed to form a eusocial colony. The reduction of that distance is achieved by a particular set of preadaptations. The rarity of these preadaptations, in just the right combination, when added to the high bar to eusociality set by countervailing individual direct selection, may be enough to explain the general phylogenetic rarity of eusociality.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022