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Beyond the Sting: Why You Should Start Paying Attention to Wasps


Beyond the Sting: Why You Should Start Paying Attention to Wasps
Behavioral ecologist Patrick Kennedy, a member of the 2021 class of the Simons Society of Fellows, studies why and how wasps choose to cooperate. He finds that paying attention to wasps can tell us how evolution tips the balance from conflict to altruism.
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For many of us, wasps and those painful stings are best avoided at all costs. But to behavioral ecologist Patrick Kennedy, wasps are fascinating creatures worthy of intensive study. In his work, he’s found that the social dynamics of wasps can yield clues about how cooperation evolves, as well as the power hierarchies that form and shift across the animal kingdom. It turns out that the “soap operas” that take place in wasp nests, as Kennedy affectionately describes them, are in fact highly meaningful. ....

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