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| العنوان: |
ANARCHY IN THE HIVE! |
| المؤلفون: |
Spinney, Laura1 |
| المصدر: |
New Scientist. 1/15/2005, Vol. 185 Issue 2482, p42-45. 4p. 2 Color Photographs, 2 Diagrams, 2 Charts. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
*HONEYBEES, *QUEEN bee rearing, *GENES |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
SYDNEY (N.S.W.), NEW South Wales |
| People: |
OLDROYD, Ben, HAMILTON, William |
| مستخلص: |
This article reports that from the outside, a honeybee colony appears the epitome of social harmony. The queen produces offspring that are raised by loyal workers who forgo their own reproduction to keep the colony running smoothly. But in reality it is a dark world of conflict, infanticide and thwarted reproductive ambitions, kept in check by brutal policing. It's amazing said Ben Oldroyd from the University of Sydney, New South Wales, who is one of the few people to have witnessed it. Anarchy, in the world of the honeybee at least, is extremely rare. So rare in fact that it took Oldroyd a decade of advertising in beekeeping magazines to track down just two anarchic colonies. Oldroyd already has a shortlist and predicts that his team will publish the exact identity of the honeybee genes for altruism within a few months. If so, the announcement will come 40 years after British evolutionary biologist William Hamilton resolved the paradox of how such a gene can spread in a population, by showing mathematically that genes for altruism are actually as selfish as any other gene. INSET: How to get ahead in a hive. |
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