Eusociality
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Eusociality (Greek eu: "good/real" + "social") is a term used for the highest level of social organization in a hierarchical classification. Eusociality is characterized by cooperative brood care, overlapping adult generations and division of labor by reproductive and (partially) non-reproductive groups. In analogy with some human societies, groups of specialized individuals are sometimes called castes. Several different levels of sociality have been categorized including presociality (Solitary but social), subsociality, parasocial (including communal, quasisocial, and semisocial), and eusocial.
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See also
- Evolution of eusociality
- Dense heterarchy
- Evolutionarily stable strategy
- Gyne
- Patterns of self-organization in ants
- Presociality
- Reciprocity (social psychology)
- Stigmergy
- Task allocation and partitioning of social insects
- International Union for the Study of Social Insects
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