Social evolution: lazy wasps look to the future.
Female hairy-faced hover wasps forage for the young of a dominant breeder, but some forage more than others. New research shows that helpers decide how much to help by looking to the future.
Griffin
Ashleigh
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Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK. a.griffin@ed.ac.uk
D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005260:Female; D006379:Helping Behavior; D006608:Hierarchy, Social; D012726:Sexual Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology*; D014863:Wasps / Q000502:physiology*