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Studying the Development of Colonial Insects

Caption: Arizona State University associate professor Gro Amdam (front) leads a group of researchers, including postdoctoral fellow Florian Wolschin, who are shedding new light on the development of colonial insects from solitary ancestors through study of a primitive social order of wasps.

Credit: Photo by Tom Story, Arizona State University

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