"If it looks like a duck…" – why humans need to focus on different approaches than insects if we are to become efficiently and effectively ultrasocial. (2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Aitken, Kenneth John
• Is Part Of: Behavioral and brain sciences. Volume 39(2016)
• Publication Date: 2016
• Subjects: Psychophysiology -- Periodicals; Psychology -- Periodicals; Human behavior -- Periodicals; Animal behavior -- Periodicals; Brain -- Periodicals; 616.89142
• DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X15000977
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0140-525X

Abstract

Abstract: The parallels between the agricultural successes of ultrasocial insects and those of humans are interesting and potentially important. There are a number of important caveats, however, including the relative complexities of insect reproduction, their more rigidly determined altricial patterns of social behaviour, the roles of post-reproductive group members, and differences in the known factors involved in ultrasocietal collapse.