Life History

Life history details describe and explain the birth, growth, reproduction and death of an organism. From this, life history theory attempts to explain how these features have evolved and influence various aspects a species' biology, e.g., morphology, behavior, ecological interactions and population dynamics. In ants, life history details and understanding the evolutionary biology of any given species is complicated in interesting ways by their sociality. Biologists are interested in understanding the life histories of ant species in order to better understand individual species, ants as a whole and, more generally, the evolution of sociality.

The Antwiki webpage The Ant Life Cycle provides a general introduction to the life cycle of an ant colony.

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