Colony fusion - an inclusive fitness conundrum 🪵
In this blog, beckypadget.bsky.social explores why do some colonies merge with unrelated neighbours despite what evolutionary theory predicts.
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By Rebecca Padget, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Bristol using modelling inspired by cool animal systems to understand how and why animals cooperate in groups. Her latest w…
