INBREEDING. “A final force that could drive incipient colonies away from a high degree of relatedness during evolution might be the loss of genetic fitness by inbreeding. In communal associations of bees, group members occupy a single nest. They cooperate in brood care, but without surrendering their personal reproduction. This form of sociality, which occurs in all six of the taxonomic families of bees, could lead to eusociality by the subordination of some of the nest occupants, although no such shift has yet been documented.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022