Eusociality

Eusociality is the highest level of organization of sociality. It is defined by the following characteristics: cooperative brood care, overlapping generations within a colony of adults, and a division of labor into reproductive and non-reproductive groups. The division of labor creates specialized behavioral groups within an animal society, sometimes called castes.

Eusociality is distinguished from all other social systems because individuals of at least one caste usually lose the ability to perform behaviors characteristic of individuals in another caste.
Eusocial colonies can be viewed as superorganisms.

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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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