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- W3149779564 abstract "Past studies of caste systems in the social insects have focused on the obvious genetic and physiological problems of the mechanisms that control caste determination in the individual insect. Several independent experimental investigations have now provided a body of definitive information on the subject. In the great majority of bees, and in most-and perhaps all -ants, wasps, and termites, caste is apparently environmentally determined. The environmental controls are diverse in nature and differ from group to group. They include the biasing influences of yolk nutrients, of various quantitative and qualitative factors in larval feeding, of temperature changes, and of the caste-specific pheromones (see reviews by Brian, 1965; Lu-scher, 1961; Weaver, 1966). There is a second major problem connected with caste which is evolutionary in nature and can be phrased as follows: Why do the ratios of the castes (in a whole colony population) vary among species of social insects? This question is much less obvious than the physiological one and can be considered only in the context of the ecology of the individual species. A large amount of empirical information on ratios exists but only a small amount of theory. Only recently have students of social insects begun to handle the subject in a systematic fashion, as, for example, in the work of Richards and Richards (1951), Lindauer (1961), Hamilton (1964), Brian (1966), and Wilson (1966). Still, very little theory on the subject has been formulated. This matter of the presence or absence of a given caste, together with its relative abundance when present, should be susceptible to some form of optimization theory, provided we are able to assume selection at the colony level. In fact, colony selection in the advanced social insects does appear to be the one example of group selection that can be accepted unequivocally. It therefore seems a sound procedure to accept colony selection as a mechanism and to press on in search of an optimization theory based on the axiom that the mechanism operates generally. For if selection is mostly at the colony level, workers can be altruistic with respect to the remainder of the colony; and their numbers and behavior can be regulated to achieve maximum colony fitness. What has been lacking so far is an entree to the theory of group behavior, a way of abstracting our empirical knowledge of caste and colony ergonomics1 into a form that can be used to analyze optimiza-" @default.
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- W3149779564 title "The Ergonomics of Caste in the Social Insects" @default.
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