title: Ultrasociality and the sexual divisions of labor.
abstract: The ultrasociality thesis proposes that the same "mechanistic evolutionary forces" may be at work in the evolution of insect eusociality and human ultrasociality in relation to agriculture. Wide variation in the reproductive division of labor among differing highly social phyla points to a resemblance of outcomes arising from very different selective environments and possibly different forces.
authors: Southgate Institute for Health,Society and Equity,Flinders University of South Australia,Adelaide,SA 5042,Australiapamela.lyon@internode.on.net.
authors: Pamela
authors: P
authors: Lyon
authors: Department of Science and Technology Studies,Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,Troy,NY 12180.caporl@rpi.edu.
authors: Linnda R
authors: LR
authors: Caporael
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007313:Insecta; D011247:Pregnancy; D012098:Reproduction; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D012919:Social Behavior