Thermal stress is a major driver of population declines and extinctions. Shifts in thermal
regimes create new environmental conditions, leading to trait adaptation, population …

All social insects defend their colony from predators, parasites, and pathogens. In Oster and
Wilson's classic work, they posed one of the key paradoxes about defense in social insects …

Animals construct and inhabit nests that can exhibit dramatic intra-and interspecific variation
due to differences in behaviour, the biotic and abiotic environment, and evolutionary history …

The extraordinary success of social insects is partially based on division of labour, ie
individuals exclusively or preferentially perform specific tasks. Task preference may …

In social animals, success can depend on the outcome of group battles. Theoretical models
of warfare predict that group fighting ability is proportional to two key factors: the strength of …

The size–complexity hypothesis is a leading explanation for the evolution of complex life on
earth. It predicts that in lineages that have undergone a major transition in organismality …

Critical thermal limits (CTLs) constrain the performance of organisms, shaping their
abundance, current distributions, and future distributions. Consequently, CTLs may also …

Insects evolved various modifications to their mouthparts, allowing for a broad exploration of
feeding modes. In ants, workers perform non-reproductive tasks like excavation, food …

Sociality is classified as one of the major transitions in the evolution of complexity and much
effort has been dedicated to understanding what traits predispose lineages to sociality …

The scope of adaptive phenotypic change within a lineage is shaped by how functional traits
evolve. Castes are defining functional traits of adaptive phenotypic change in complex insect …