Competition Drives Group Formation and Reduces Within Nest Relatedness in a Facultatively Social Carpenter Bee
Animals respond to competition among kin for critical breeding resources in two ways: avoidance of direct fitness costs via dispersal of siblings to breed separately, and formation of kin-based societies in which subordinates offset direct fitness costs of breeding competition via altruism and incre...
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2021
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