Group selection

Group selection is a proposed mechanism of evolution in which natural selection acts at the level of the group, instead of at the level of the individual or gene.

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EUSOCIALITY

The science of social life — ants, bees, termites, mole-rats and the biology of cooperation, kinship, and colony behavior.

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