The Evolution of Social Wasps - Table of Contents

Foreword by Raghavendra Gadagkar

Introduction

I. History

    1. Plant Feeders and Parasitoids
       Symphytans
       Apocrita
       Aculeata

    2. Pollen Wasps, Potter Wasps, and Hover Wasps
       Euparagiinae
       Masarinae
       Eumeninae
       Stenogastrinae

    3. Paper Wasps and Vespines
       Independent-founding Polistinae
       Swarm-founding Polistinae
       Vespinae

    4. The Historical Scenario of Social Evolution
       Overview
       Diphyletic Sociality in Vespidae
       Sociality in Stenogastrinae
       Sociality in Polistinae (+ Vespinae)
       A Further Argument for Diphyletic Vespid Sociality
       Beyond the Sociality Threshold

II. Dynamics

    5. Individuals
       Midgut Proteases
       Free Amino Acids
       Fat Body and Storage Protein
       Polyphenism
       Diapause and Quiescence

    6. Colonies
       Colony Founding and Nest Construction
       Alloparental Offspring
       Supplementation Experiments
       Œcotrophobiosis and Diminishment Experiments
       Dominance and Cofoundress Interactions

    7. Populations
       An Exemplary Solitary Wasp
       Polistes
       Paper Wasps as Annuals
       Usurpataion and Inquilinism
       Multiple Foundresses
       Opportunity for Selection
       Stenogastrines, Vespines, and Swarm Founders

    8. The Dynamic Scenario of Social Evolution
       The Ovarian Ground Plan Hypothesis
       The Reproductive Ground Plan Hypothesis
       Life Cycles in Solitary Wasps
       The Diapause Ground Plan Hypothesis
       The Dynamic Scenario
       Synthesis
       Other Social Wasps
       Phylogenetic Implications
       The Selective Basis of Caste

III. Paradigm Lost - and Found?

    9. Kin Selection
       Haplodiploidy
       Sex Ratio
       Inclusive Fitness
       The Future of Kin Selection

    10. Behavioral Ecology
       Altruism
       Teleology
       Labeling
       Adaptationism
       Asking Why
       The Real Difficulty

    11. A Postmodern Synthesis
       Phenotypic Plasticity
       Colony-level Selection
       An Action Plan for Research on Vespidae

Conclusion

References

Author Index

Subject Index

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