Sex on Six Legs_ Lessons on Life, Love, and Language From the Insect World - Marlene Zuk [116]
sociogenomics studies on, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
workers, [>], [>]
See also social insects
honeybees dance communication
advantages of, [>]–[>]
Asian honeybees, [>]
auditory information with, [>]
comparison with red dwarf bees, [>]–[>]
evolution of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
finding new home site, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
food source distance/direction and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Frisch's work on, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
hiding food information from competitors, [>], [>]
odor cues with, [>], [>]
research confirming, [>]–[>]
skepticism on, [>]–[>]
symbolic language/thinking and, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
waggle dance description, [>]
waggle dance dialect differences, [>]
waggle dance on YouTube, [>]–[>]
honeybees genome project
disease defense and, [>]
results, [>]–[>], [>]
"sociality genes," [>]
honeybees house hunting
beekeepers and, [>], [>]
"buzz-run," [>]
consensus decisions vs. combined decisions, [>]–[>]
decision making, [>], [>]–[>]
experiment on island, [>]–[>]
group decision and, [>]–[>]
moving in unison, [>]–[>]
"piping" cry, [>]
queen and, [>], [>]
reasons for, [>], [>]–[>]
scouts' communication and, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
site traits, [>]
swarm description, [>]
swarming, [>]–[>], [>]
Zuk's garage and, [>]–[>]
Horse Personality Questionnaire, [>]
Huber, Pierre, [>]
Human Genome Project, [>]
humans
childbirth, [>], [>]
childcare needs explanations, [>]–[>]
genome size, [>]
language "uniqueness" and, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
sex ratio, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
sperm cells, [>]–[>]
sperm types and, [>]
"uniqueness" and, [>], [>]–[>]
hunting concept, [>]–[>]
individuality
backbone and, [>]
humans and, [>], [>]
insect stereotype, [>]–[>]
See also personality
individual recognition in insects
ants, [>]–[>]
brains and, [>]–[>]
complex social behavior and, [>]–[>]
overview, [>]–[>]
paper wasps, [>]–[>]
infanticide with cannibalism, [>]–[>]
"inheritance of acquired characteristics," [>]–[>]
insects
automaton stereotype (overview), [>]–[>], [>]
conservation and, [>]
diversity of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
dung removal by, [>], [>], [>]
ecological services of (overview), [>], [>]–[>], [>]
economic value estimation, [>]
equal-opportunity entomology, [>]–[>]
human views of (overview), [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
importance of studying (overview), [>]–[>]
lack of expression, [>]–[>]
life span diversity, [>]–[>]
mirroring human behavior, [>]–[>]
numbers of, [>], [>]
pest control by, [>]
pollination, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
population control by, [>]
recreational services of, [>]
sex ratio, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
soil improvement by, [>]–[>]
"Insect Warfare" (band), [>]
insulin, [>]
intelligence
backbone and, [>]
counting and, [>]–[>]
prerequisites for, [>]
teaching and, [>]–[>]
trade-offs with, [>]–[>]
variations in, [>]–[>]
intelligence of insects
altruism, [>]
candidates for, [>]
chemical alterations/mutations experiments, [>]–[>]
counting, [>]–[>]
crickets refinding sites, [>]–[>]
devising experiments, [>]
discrimination among photographs, [>]
discrimination in decision making, [>]
fruit fly experiments, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
human faces recognition, [>]–[>], [>]
naturalists belittling, [>]–[>], [>]
nutritional content experiments, [>]–[>]
object manipulation and, [>]–[>]
parasitic wasps and, [>]
provisioning wasps and, [>]–[>]
sociability and, [>]
teaching and, [>]–[>]
intelligence of insects/human implications
artificial intelligence, [>]–[>]
brain damage and, [>]
computer improvement, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
computerized facial recognition, [>]
gene therapy and, [>]
humans with limited abilities, [>]
learning difficulties and, [>]
prosopagnosia research, [>]
robotics, [>], [>]
Jacob, François, [>]
Jenner, Ronald, [>]
Johnson, Christine, [>]
Johnson, J. Chadwick, [>]
Jung, Carl, [>]
katydids, [>]–[>]
Kawecki, Tad
exterminator incident, [>]
fruit fly experiments, [>]–[>], [>]
Keller, Evelyn Fox, [>]