Search Results - "Edward O. Wilson"

Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Sociobiology by Wilson, David Sloan, Wilson, Edward O.

“…Current sociobiology is in theoretical disarray, with a diversity of frameworks that are poorly related to each other. Part of the problem is a reluctance to…”
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Limitations of inclusive fitness by Allen, Benjamin, Nowak, Martin A., Wilson, Edward O.

“…Until recently, inclusive fitness has been widely accepted as a general method to explain the evolution of social behavior. Affirming and expanding earlier…”
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Eusociality: origin and consequences by Wilson, E.O, Holldobler, B

“…In this new assessment of the empirical evidence, an alternative to the standard model is proposed: group selection is the strong binding force in eusocial…”
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Natural selection drives the evolution of ant life cycles by Wilson, Edward O., Nowak, Martin A.

“…The genetic origin of advanced social organization has long been one of the outstanding problems of evolutionary biology. Here we present an analysis of the…”
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One Giant Leap: How Insects Achieved Altruism and Colonial Life by WILSON, EDWARD O

“…The advanced colonial state of eusociality has evolved in insects as a defense of nest sites within foraging distance of persistent food sources. In the…”
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rise of the ants: a phylogenetic and ecological explanation by Wilson, E.O, Holldobler, B

“…In the past two decades, studies of anatomy, behavior, and, most recently, DNA sequences have clarified the phylogeny of the ants at the subfamily and generic…”
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An ant genus-group (Prenolepis) illuminates the biogeography and drivers of insect diversification in the Indo-Pacific by Matos-Maraví, Pável, Clouse, Ronald M., Sarnat, Eli M., Economo, Evan P., LaPolla, John S., Borovanska, Michaela, Rabeling, Christian, Czekanski-Moir, Jesse, Latumahina, Fransina, Wilson, Edward O., Janda, Milan

“…[Display omitted] •Faunal interchange between Asia and Australia has been an ancient zoogeographical event (20–25 Ma).•New Guinea was colonized by Miocene ants…”
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Breaking out of biogeographical modules: range expansion and taxon cycles in the hyperdiverse ant genus Pheidole by Economo, Evan P, Sarnat, Eli M, Janda, Milan, Clouse, Ronald, Klimov, Pavel B, Fischer, Georg, Blanchard, Benjamin D, Ramirez, Lizette N, Andersen, Alan N, Berman, Maia, Guénard, Benoit, Lucky, Andrea, Rabeling, Christian, Wilson, Edward O, Knowles, L. Lacey

“…AIM: We sought to reconstruct the biogeographical structure and dynamics of a hyperdiverse ant genus, Pheidole, and to test several predictions of the taxon…”
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Biodiversity research requires more boots on the ground by Wilson, Edward O.

“…Our incomplete taxonomic knowledge impedes our attempts to protect biodiversity. A renaissance in the classification of species and their interactions is…”
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Cockroaches: Ecology, Behavior, and Natural History by Bell, William J, Roth, Louis M, Nalepa, Christine A, Wilson, Edward O

“…The cockroach is truly an evolutionary wonder. This definitive volume provides a complete overview of suborder Blattaria, highlighting the diversity of these…”
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The general form of Hamilton’s rule makes no predictions and cannot be tested empirically by Nowak, Martin A., McAvoy, Alex, Allen, Benjamin, Wilson, Edward O.

“…Hamilton’s rule asserts that a trait is favored by natural selection if the benefit to others, B, multiplied by relatedness, R, exceeds the cost to self, C…”
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Systematics and the Future of Biology by Wilson, Edward O.

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Biogeography and evolution of social parasitism in Australian Myrmecia bulldog ants revealed by phylogenomics by Mera-Rodríguez, Daniela, Jourdan, Hervé, Ward, Philip S., Shattuck, Steven, Cover, Stefan P., Wilson, Edward O., Rabeling, Christian

“…[Display omitted] •We inferred a phylogeny for the Myrmeciinae using phylogenomic markers.•The island endemic Myrmecia apicalis dispersed from Australia to New…”
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The evolution of eusociality by Tarnita, Corina E, Wilson, Edward O, Nowak, Martin A

“…Eusociality, in which some individuals reduce their own lifetime reproductive potential to raise the offspring of others, underlies the most advanced forms of…”
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The encyclopedia of life by Wilson, Edward O

“…Comparative biology, crossing the digital divide, has begun a still largely unheralded revolution: the exploration and analysis of biodiversity at a vastly…”
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Nature Divided, Scientists United: US–Mexico Border Wall Threatens Biodiversity and Binational Conservation by PETERS, ROBERT, RIPPLE, WILLIAM J., WOLF, CHRISTOPHER, MOSKWIK, MATTHEW, CARREÓN-ARROYO, GERARDO, CEBALLOS, GERARDO, CÓRDOVA, ANA, DIRZO, RODOLFO, EHRLICH, PAUL R., FLESCH, AARON D., LIST, RURIK, LOVEJOY, THOMAS E., NOSS, REED F., PACHECO, JESÚS, SARUKHÁN, JOSÉ K., SOULÉ, MICHAEL E., WILSON, EDWARD O., MILLER, JENNIFER R. B.

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The Poetic Species: A Conversation with Edward O. Wilson and Robert Hass by Wilson, Edward O, Hass, Robert, Briccetti, Lee

“…A meeting of great minds at the intersection of the arts and sciences…”
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Scientific Natural History: Telling the Epics of Nature by TSCHINKEL, WALTER R., WILSON, EDWARD O.

“…Scientific natural history, which addresses all biological aspects of individual species, one species at a time, then compares many together, is as important…”
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Evolution "for the Good of the Group" by Wilson, David Sloan, Wilson, Edward O

“…In this way natural selection could perpetuate traits that are favorable not to an individual but to a social unit such as a flock or a colony, or to an entire…”
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Nowak et al. reply by Nowak, Martin A., Tarnita, Corina E., Wilson, Edward O.

“…Replying to: P. Abbot et al. Nature471, 10.1038/nature09831 (2011) ; J. J. Boomsma et al. Nature471, 10.1038/nature09832 (2011) ; J. E. Strassmann et al…”
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