title: "If it looks like a duck…" - why humans need to focus on different approaches than insects if we are to become efficiently and effectively ultrasocial.
abstract: The parallels between the agricultural successes of ultrasocial insects and those of humans are interesting and potentially important. There are a number of important caveats, however, including the relative complexities of insect reproduction, their more rigidly determined altricial patterns of social behaviour, the roles of post-reproductive group members, and differences in the known factors involved in ultrasocietal collapse.
authors: Learning Disability-Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (LD-CAMHS),Greater Glasgow Health Board,Yorkhill Hospital,Glasgow G9 8SJ,United Kingdom.drken.aitken@btinternet.com.
authors: Kenneth John
authors: KJ
authors: Aitken
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D007313:Insecta; D012098:Reproduction; D012919:Social Behavior