Only full-sibling families evolved eusociality.
Détails
Etat: Public
Version: de l'auteur⸱e
Licence: Non spécifiée
ID Serval
serval:BIB_9E778FDDEAC3
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Sous-type
Lettre (letter): communication adressée à l'éditeur.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Titre
Only full-sibling families evolved eusociality.
Périodique
Nature
ISSN
1476-4687 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
0028-0836
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2011
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
471
Numéro
7339
Pages
E4-E5; author reply E9-10
Langue
anglais
Notes
Publication types: Comment ; Letter Publication Status: ppublish
Résumé
Arising from M. A. Nowak, C. E. Tarnita & E. O. Wilson 466, 1057-1062 (2010); Nowak et al. reply. The paper by Nowak et al. has the evolution of eusociality as its title, but it is mostly about something else. It argues against inclusive fitness theory and offers an alternative modelling approach that is claimed to be more fundamental and general, but which, we believe, has no practical biological meaning for the evolution of eusociality. Nowak et al. overlook the robust empirical observation that eusociality has only arisen in clades where mothers are associated with their full-sibling offspring; that is, in families where the average relatedness of offspring to siblings is as high as to their own offspring, independent of population structure or ploidy. We believe that this omission makes the paper largely irrelevant for understanding the evolution of eusociality.
Pubmed
Web of science
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25/03/2011 13:13
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23/08/2019 7:08