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<blockquote data-quote="Geek" data-source="post: 2217421" data-attributes="member: 246624">Wasps, hornets, and other <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymenoptera" target="_blank">Hymenoptera</a> may live nearly solitary lives, live in huge colonies, or something in between.&nbsp; The European hornet, Vespa crabro, lives in a colony consisting of one queen mated to a single male.&nbsp; In Hymenoptera, females are typically diploid (having genes from both parents) while males are typically haploid (having genes only from the female parent).&nbsp; If you draw a diagram of this and stare at it for a long time, you may come to the same conclusions that Bill &quot;Buzz Off&quot; Hamilton came to several years ago.&nbsp; A female would benefit genetically from helping her mother raise more sisters to a greater extent than she would benefit from having her own offspring, because she will be related to her sisters by 75% but to her offspring by 50%.&nbsp; Depending on other conditions, of course.&nbsp;<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/scientific_research_shows_that.php" target="_blank">Read the rest of this post...</a> | <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/scientific_research_shows_that.php#commentsArea" target="_blank">Read the comments on this post...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~4/ROXu3SL2DDE" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~3/ROXu3SL2DDE/scientific_research_shows_that.php" target="_blank">More...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Geek, post: 2217421, member: 246624"] Wasps, hornets, and other [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymenoptera"]Hymenoptera[/URL] may live nearly solitary lives, live in huge colonies, or something in between. The European hornet, [I]Vespa crabro[/I], lives in a colony consisting of one queen mated to a single male. In Hymenoptera, females are typically diploid (having genes from both parents) while males are typically haploid (having genes only from the female parent). If you draw a diagram of this and stare at it for a long time, you may come to the same conclusions that Bill "Buzz Off" Hamilton came to several years ago. A female would benefit genetically from helping her mother raise more sisters to a greater extent than she would benefit from having her own offspring, because she will be related to her sisters by 75% but to her offspring by 50%. Depending on other conditions, of course. [URL="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/scientific_research_shows_that.php"]Read the rest of this post...[/URL] | [URL="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/scientific_research_shows_that.php#commentsArea"]Read the comments on this post...[/URL][IMG]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~4/ROXu3SL2DDE[/IMG] [url=http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~3/ROXu3SL2DDE/scientific_research_shows_that.php]More...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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