ArticleNature2018
Fitness benefits and emergent division of labour at the onset of group living.
Article in Nature, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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53 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 160 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Larger colony sizes favoured the evolution of more worker castes in ants.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Article
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
The initial fitness benefits of group living are considered to be the greatest hurdle to the evolution of sociality
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