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Competition, loss of selfishness mark shift to supersociety

How social or altruistic behavior evolved has been a central and hotly debated question, particularly by those researchers engaged in the study of social insect societies -- ants, bees and wasps. Researchers, including professor Bert Hölldobler of ASU's School of Life Sciences and the Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity, propose a model, based on tug-of-war theory, that may explain the selection pressures that mark the evolutionary transition from primitive society to superorganism.

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