On Your Best Bee-haviour
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On Your Best Bee-haviour
In 2008, Western University scientist Graham Thompson helped isolate a region on the honeybee genome that controls when workers help or cheat on their queen. It was the first time genes for selfish cheating behaviour had been isolated from any social animal, and their work provided a strong validation of sociobiological theory.
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