When It’s Good to Be Antisocial

ees are emblems of social complexity. Their honeycombs—intricate lattices dripping with food—house bustling hive members carrying out carefully orchestrated duties like defending against predators and coordinating resource collection. Much of our own success is due to this sort of division of labor. Clearly,. You could be forgiven for assuming that complex social organization is the—or at least a—pinnacle of evolution.