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tent caterpillars, [>]–[>]
water striders, [>]
personality in non-human animals
anthropomorphism and, [>], [>], [>]
behavioral syndrome, [>]
bold-shy continuum, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
consciousness and, [>]–[>]
consequences, [>], [>]
Darwin on, [>]–[>]
domestic breeds and, [>]
fishing spiders, [>]
Horse Personality Questionnaire, [>]
implications for scientific research, [>]
research on, [>]–[>]
suites of traits, [>]
sunfish, [>], [>], [>]
See also personality in insects
pheromones, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
"physics envy," [>]
Pieridae, [>]
Pitnick, Scott, [>]–[>]
Planqué, Robert, [>]
pollination and insects, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Pope, Alexander, [>]
Preston-Mafham, Ken, [>]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, [>]
prosopagnosia (face blindness), [>]
Psychological Experiments with Ants (Kolozsvary), [>]
Pulteney, William, [>]
Ratnieks, Francis, [>], [>], [>], [>]
rats
infanticide with cannibalism, [>]
naked mole rats, [>]
red viscacha rats, [>]
Remnant, Richard, [>]
Richardson, Thomas, [>]
Rittschof, Clare, [>]–[>]
Robinson, Gene
background, [>]
honeybees, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
paper wasps, [>], [>]
Rossellini, Isabella, [>]
rover-sitter gene dichotomy, [>]–[>], [>]
royal jelly, [>], [>], [>]
Russell, Bertrand, [>]
same-sex behavior in insects
advantages, [>]–[>]
African bat bugs, [>]–[>]
basis of, [>]
"curing" human homosexuality and, [>], [>]–[>]
damselflies, [>]–[>], [>]
"declining moral standards" and, [>]–[>]
dopamine and, [>]
dragonflies, [>]
examples, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
fruit flies, [>]–[>]
nerve cells and, [>]–[>]
switching behavior, [>], [>]–[>]
synapses and glutamate, [>]–[>]
same-sex behavior in non-human animals
debates and, [>]–[>]
examples, [>], [>], [>], [>]
gay marriage and, [>]
public interest in, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
scientists "moral" responses, [>]–[>]
spiders, [>]
See also same-sex behavior in insects
Satyridae, [>]
Schneirla, Theodore, [>], [>]
Schultz, Kevin, [>]
Science (journal), [>]
scorpionflies, [>], [>]
Seeley, Tom, [>]–[>]
Seinfeld, Jerry, [>], [>]
selfish DNA (transposable elements), [>]–[>]
serotonin, [>]
sex chromosomes, [>], [>]–[>]
sex determination
social insects, [>]–[>]
temperature and, [>]
sex ratio
about, [>]–[>]
condition of mother/offspring and, [>]–[>]
determination, [>]–[>]
energy investment and, [>]–[>]
equal sex ratios, [>]–[>]
frequency-dependent selection, [>]–[>]
gene perpetuation and, [>], [>]–[>]
humans, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
insects, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
parasitic wasps and, [>]–[>], [>]
queen vs. worker control, [>]–[>]
sex chromosomes and, [>]–[>]
social insects, [>]–[>]
unequal sex ratios, [>], [>]–[>]
Sex Wars (Majerus), [>]
Shakespeare, [>]
sheep, bighorn, [>]
Sherman, Gavin, [>]
siblicide, [>]–[>]
Siebert, Charles, [>]
Sih, Andy, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
silkworm genes, [>]
silverfish
genome size, [>]
mating strategy, [>]
as pest, [>]
Simmons, Leigh
dung flies/beetles, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
experimental evolution, [>]–[>]
Six Chix cartoon, [>]
Sleigh, Charlotte, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Smith, Adrian, [>], [>]–[>]
Snook, Rhonda, [>]–[>]
social insects
altruism, [>], [>], [>]
ancient/early gender misconceptions on, [>]–[>]
detecting reproductive cheaters, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
division of labor, [>]–[>]
genetic payoff, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
movie inaccuracies about, [>]–[>]
origin of social behavior, [>]–[>]
other insects with social behavior, [>]–[>]
parenting and, [>], [>]
"piping" queens, [>]
queen determination, [>]–[>], [>]
queen's role, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
role determination, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
sex determination, [>]–[>]
sex ratio, [>]–[>]
sisters genetic closeness/effects, [>]–[>], [>]
worker policing, [>]–[>]
workers, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
workers and egg production, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
See also specific insects
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