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Keller, E. F. 1983. A Feeling for the Organism. New York: W H. Freeman and Co.

Koolhaas, J. M. 2008. Coping style and immunity in animals: Making sense of individual variation. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity 22: 662–667.

Kortet, R., and A. Hedrick. 2007. A behavioural syndrome in the field cricket Gryllus integer: Intrasexual aggression is correlated with activity in a novel environment. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 91: 475–482.

Mehta, P. H., and S. D. Gosling. 2008. Bridging human and animal research: A comparative approach to studies of personality and health. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity 22: 651–661.

Nemiroff, L., and E. Despland. 2007. Consistent individual differences in the foraging behaviour of forest tent caterpillars (Malacosoma disstria). Canadian Journal of Zoology 85: 1117–1124.

Nettle, D. 2006. The evolution of personality variation in humans and other animals. American Psychologist 61: 622–631.

Øyvind, Ø. 2007. Preface: Plasticity and diversity in behavior and brain function—Important raw material for natural selection? Brain, Behavior, and Evolution 70: 215–217.

Réale, D., S. M. Reader, D. Sol, P. T. McDougall, and N. J. Dingemanse. 2007. Integrating animal temperament within ecology and evolution. Biological Reviews 82: 291–318.

Robins, R. W. 2005. The nature of personality: Genes, culture, and national character. Science 310: 62–63.

Sih, A., A. M. Bell, and J. C. Johnson. 2004. Behavioral syndromes: An integrative overview. Quarterly Review of Biology 79: 241–277.

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Sih, A., and J. V. Watters. 2005. The mix matters: Behavioural types and group dynamics in water striders. Behaviour 142: 1417–1431.

Stamps, J. A. 2007. Growth-mortality tradeoffs and "personality traits" in animals. Ecology Letters 10: 355–363.

Tibbetts, E. A. 2002. Visual signals of individual identity in the wasp Polistes fuscatus. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 269: 1423–1428.

———. 2004. Complex social behaviour can select for variability in visual features: A case study in Polistes wasps. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 271: 1955–1960.

Tibbetts, E. A., and J. Dale. 2004. A socially enforced signal of quality in a paper wasp. Nature 432: 218–222.

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Tibbetts, E. A., and R. Lindsay. 2008. Visual signals of status and rival assessment in Polistes dominulus paper wasps. Biology Letters 4: 237–239.

Wilson, D. S., A. B. Clark, K. Coleman, and T. Dearstyne. 1994. Shyness and boldness in humans and other animals. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 9: 442–446.

Wolf, M., G. S. van Doorn, O. Leimar, and F. J. Weissing. 2007. Life-history trade-offs favour the evolution of animal personalities. Nature 447: 581–584.

4. Seinfeld and the Queen

Angier, N. 2007. In Hollywood hives, the males rule. New York Times, November 13.

Brackney, S. 2007. The real life of bees. New York Times, November 9.

Charlat, S., E. A. Hornett, J. H. Fullard, N. Davies, G. K. Roderick, N. Wedell, and G. D. D. Hurst. Extraordinary flux in sex ratio. Science 317: 214.

Cobb, M. 2002. Jan Swammerdam on social insects: A view from the seventeenth century. Insectes Sociaux 49: 92–97.

Crane, E. 1999. The World History of Beekeeping and Honey Hunting. New York: Routledge.

Godfray, H. C. J., and J. H. Werren. 1996. Recent developments in sex ratio studies. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 11: 59–63.

Hamilton, W. D. 1967. Extraordinary sex ratios. Science 156: 477–488.

Swammerdam, J. 2004. Information available at http://janswammerdam.net.

Trivers, R. L., and H. Hare. 1976. Haplodiploidy and the evolution of the social insect. Science 191: 249–263.

Trivers, R. L., and D. E. Willard. 1973. Natural selection of parental ability to vary the sex ratio of offspring. Science 179: 90–92.

Wilson, B. 2004. The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us. London: John Murray.