Debugging the Link between Social Theory and Social Insects by Diane M. Rodgers

Author:Diane M. Rodgers [Rodgers, Diane M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Anthropology, General, Nature, Animals, Insects & Spiders
ISBN: 9780807133699
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Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2008-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

There could not be the peculiar development found in the beehive except in a bee community…. In such organizations as the beehive there arise the conditions under which, due to the abundance of food, the forms carry over from one generation to another. Under those conditions a complex social development is possible, but dependent still upon physiological differentiation. We have no evidence of the accruing of an experience which is passed on by means of communication from one generation to another. Nevertheless, under those conditions of surplus food this physiological development flowers out in an astonishing fashion. Such a differentiation as this could only take place in a community. The queen bee and the fighter among the ants could only arise out of an insect society. One could not bring together these different individuals and constitute an insect society; there has to be an insect society first in order that these individuals might arise. (1934, 232–33)

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