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Identity in social insects : ウィキペディア英語版 | Identity in social insects Eusocial insects have developed from their organization and ability to recognize one another within their society. This recognition of others, from recognizing individuals to groups, is an indication of society, and creates an identity colony wide for each insect. == Individuality Thesis ==
In terms of the individuality thesis, it is said that complex or high level social insects are individuals rather than being like organisms. This thesis created by Ghiselin (1969, 1974) and David Hull (1976, 1978) originally related to the issues regards the nature and reality of species but can be interpreted to relate to inter colonial developments. Within the colonies of social insects such as ants, dynamic social recognition systems make their advanced societies possible. The mediator for the social recognition systems included a blend of hydrocarbons that each individual within a colony carried as a way to recognize others from within the same colony.〔 The individuality of the sole insect and the cohesion of the colony are very similar in the ways that they approach recognition and solve conflicts. In the eusocial wasp ''Metapolybia cingulata'', every individual fulfills a specific role in the colony in terms of nest building and for this reason the colony is able to thrive and actually have a nest. The roles have been categorized as: specialized water foragers, specialized pulp foragers, active builders, active generalists, and idle workers. If even one of these roles, even the "idle workers", did not accomplish their goal, the colony as a whole would be unsuccessful in maintaining a nest and would ultimately die.
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