eusocial
adjective
of or relating to a form of insect society, as that of ants, characterized by specialization of tasks and cooperative care of the young.
eusociality
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a word derived from
eusocial.
Example Sentences
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Published in Current Biology, the study found that eusociality does seem to arise more often among insects with a haplodiploid genetic system.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
"When we formally tested it, we found there is no real association between the genetic determination system and eusociality," Suresh said.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
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
Reporters don’t generally call to chat about the role of stings in the evolution of eusociality.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2016
For a while, people thought that eusociality could have arisen purely from aggregations of unrelated individuals.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 1, 2015
