The social life of bees: once solitary, behaviour plays a role in gene selection for socialness TORONTO, Feb. 26, 2021 – The maternal care of offspring is one of the behavioural drivers that has led some bee species to have an ever-expanding social life over the history of evolution, new research out of York University […]
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Bee genomes show evolution takes many routes from solitary to social life
TORONTO, May 14, 2015 – An international consortium of researchers, including York University biologists, discovered there are many roads to social evolution, but the evolutionary vehicles tend to be the same. The paper, “Genomic Signatures of Evolutionary Transitions from Solitary to Group Living,” was published today in the journal Science. The evolution of sociality has […]
