Social control drove ant evolution

2025/03/24 by Timothy A. Linksvayer · 1 voice
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Anger #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Artificial intelligence #Cognitive psychology #Computer science #Control (management) #Happiness #Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior #Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research #Psychology #Salient #Social psychology

paper · pdf · doi:10.1073/pnas.2502664122

published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122(13), e2502664122 (National Academy of Sciences)

openalex publication_date 2025/03/24 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/15

Citations

• Deconstructing the Superorganism: Social Physiology, Groundplans, and Sociogenomics
• Ecological change and conflict reduction led to a social circulatory system in ants
• Innovation in ant larval feeding facilitated queen–worker divergence and social complexity
• Colony size evolution in ants: macroevolutionary trends

Discussions

• Fantastic piece (doi.org/10.1073/pnas...) by @tlinksvayer.bsky.social on @arthurmatte.bsky.social and my recent paper in PNAS (doi.org/10.1073/pnas...). He really pulls together the threads of how we [bsky, 22 points, 2 comments]