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Sex on Six Legs_ Lessons on Life, Love, and Language From the Insect World - Marlene Zuk [116]

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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, [>]

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