Eusociality learning resources

How Does Social Behavior Evolve?  
This is a good overview of altruism, and social behavior as an adaptation that improves fitness.

Figure 3: Patterns of relatedness in 
a) diploid and b) haplodiploid species.  
(Rubenstein & Kealey, 2010)

Eusociality
A comprehensive review eusociality  is discussed in Cooperation, Conflict, and the Evolution of Complex Animal Societies by Rubenstein & Kealey (2010).  

Some of the vocabulary words in the above articles are enabled with a click-and-define feature that should help with reading comprehension.

Figure 4: Solitary and primitively 
eusocial wasps. (Nowak et al., 2010).

An article written by Nowak et al. (2010) entitled The Evolution of Eusociality  explains the role that haploidy and diploidy are hypothesized to play in the inclusive fitness theory.   (Access article through Rutgers)