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adults who show some care for their young

insects who share a common nest site but lack other social qualities

• 1. Share a common nest site
• 2. Individuals of the same species cooperate in caring for the young
• 3. Reproductive division of labor -- sterile (or less fecund) individuals work for the benefit of a few reproductive individuals
• 4. Overlap of generations -- offspring contribute to colony labor while their parents are still aliv

transfer of food or other liquids between the community

false workers, child workers develpmentally plastic, can turn into another caste

any aggregate of organisms