eusociality
- a word derived from eusocial.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
This term was coined by William Wheeler in 1911, though the idea dates back to Darwin, who saw the superorganism as a solution to the “problem” of eusociality.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 10, 2018
Today, most evolutionary theorists favor the “inclusive fitness” explanation of eusociality, a theory developed by W. D. Hamilton in the early nineteen-sixties.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 10, 2018
Reporters don’t generally call to chat about the role of stings in the evolution of eusociality.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2016
“The result was that the connection between haplodiploidy and eusociality fell below statistical significance,” Wilson writes.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 9, 2012
And a few are critical of the new mathematical model that Nowak et al. propose to explain eusociality.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 23, 2011
