Homebound termites answer 150-year-old evolution question

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 - 09:49 in Biology & Nature

Staying at home may have given the very first termite youngsters the best opportunity to rule the colony when their parents were killed by their neighbors. This is according to new research supported by the National Science Foundation and published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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