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R. A. Fisher and Social Insects: The Fisher-Darwin Model of the Evolution of Eusociality (2014)

Owen, Robin E. (Author)

Biological Theory
Volume: 9, no. 3
Issue: 3
Pages: 347-356

DOI: 10.1007/s13752-014-0168-9

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Fisher recognized that the evolution of social insect colonies needed explaining, a point which Charles Darwin had avoided discussing in detail. Fisher, in his 1930 book The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection, outlined in detail how eusociality could evolve, and developed a verbal model by connecting selection on fecundity with the sterility of workers. Fisher saw social insect colonies as harmonious units, in contrast to human societies that exhibit intra-communal conflict. Fisher's development of the model was strongly influenced by his correspondence with Leonard Darwin, and so I call it the Fisher-Darwin model. However, Fisher was not influenced by Lamarckian views on the evolution of social insects that were common at that time. The Fisher-Darwin model presages almost exactly the mathematical model recently proposed by Nowak and colleagues.

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