#  Harvard scientists present new theory, evolution of eusociality  

 





August 25, 2010

 

 

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**E.O. Wilson** and PED director, **Martin Nowak,** presented a new theory on the evolution of eusociality, the rare but spectacularly successful social structure in which individuals of the world's most dominant species cooperate to raise offspring.  *[Read abstract in the Journal Nature](http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7310/full/nature09205.html#a1), [Harvard Gazette story 8/25/2010](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/08/the-ties-that-bind/).*

 

 

 



 

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