ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024
Maternal manipulation of offspring size can trigger the evolution of eusociality in promiscuous species.
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- Fraternal cooperation of hierarchical cancer parallels metazoan multicellularity and eusociality.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Review
- Early-season helping yields increasing returns to scale at the onset of eusociality.Evolution letters · 2025Article
- Innovation in ant larval feeding facilitated queen-worker divergence and social complexity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Maternal manipulation in the social Hymenoptera.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Reply to Boomsma: The evidence that eusociality evolved from monogamous ancestors is inconclusive.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Eusocial workers must evolve before maternal control.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Reply to da Silva: Helping behavior can emerge without its prior adaptive evolution.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Maternal manipulation of offspring size can trigger the evolution of eusociality in promiscuous species.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
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Abstract
Eusocial organisms typically live in colonies with one reproductive queen supported by thousands of sterile workers. It is widely believed that monogamous mating is a precondition for the evolution of eusociality. Here, we present a theoretical model that simulates a realistic scenario for the evolution of eusociality. In the model, mothers can evolve control over resource allocation to offspring, affecting offspring's body size. The offspring can evolve body-size-dependent dispersal, by which they disperse to breed or stay at the nest as helpers. We demonstrate that eusociality can evolve even if mothers are not strictly monogamous, provided that they can constrain their offspring's reproduction through manipulation. We also observe the evolution of social polymorphism with small individuals that help and larger individuals that disperse to breed. Our model unifies the traditional kin selection and maternal manipulation explanations for the evolution of eusociality and demonstrates that-contrary to current consensus belief-eusociality can evolve despite highly promiscuous mating.
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