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Social insects, merely a “fun house” mirror of human social evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 June 2016

Hal B. Levine
Hal B. Levine*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, 6140 New Zealand. Hal.levine@vuw.ac.nz http://www.victoria.ac.nz/sacs/about/staff
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Abstract

Social insects show us very little about the evolution of complex human society. As more relevant literature demonstrates, ultrasociality is a cause rather than an effect of human social evolution.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 39 , 2016 , e105
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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