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The diversity of social behavior among birds and primates is
surpassed only by members of the Hymenopteran insects, including
bees, ants, and the genus Polistes, or paper-wasps. This volume
combines incisive reviews and new, unpublished data in studies of
paper-wasps, a large and varied group whose life patterns are often
studied by biologists interested in social evolution. While this
research is significant to the natural history of paper-wasps, it
also applies to topics of general interest such as the evolution of
cooperation, social parasitism, kin recognition, and the division
of labor.
West-Eberhard is widely recognized as one of the most incisive thinkers in evolutionary biology. This book assesses all the evidence for our current understanding of the role of changes in body plan and development for the process of speciation. The process of evolution is systematically reassessed to integrate the insights coming from developmental genetics. Every serious student of evolution, and a substantial share of developmental biologists and geneticists, will need to take note of this contribution. The timing is clearly ripe for the synthesis that this work will help bring about.
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