As a eusocial insect, many traits of honey bees, which are closely related to their social life style, are of quantitative traits.

作为一种典型的社会性昆虫，许多和蜜蜂社会生活紧密相关的性状都是数量性状。

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Some insects, such as ants and bees, live in "eusocial" groups, in which different members carry out specialized jobs to help maintain the colony.

有些昆虫，比如蚂蚁和蜜蜂，住在‘群居社会’，这里不同的成员各自完成特定的工作以确保殖民地的运转。

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"Different species of ants have different levels of this" reproductive constraint, "and we believe those levels provide a measure of how eusocial the colony is."

Abouheif解释说：“不同的蚂蚁种群具有不同水平的‘生殖控制’机制，”我们相信这种水平提供了一个了解该种群群居程度的尺度。

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At the center of any eusocial community is not the office.

FORBES: 'Work' and 'Home' Are Not True Distinctions

When this final preliminary step is attained, all that is needed to create a eusocial colony is for the parents and offspring to stay at the nest and cooperate in raising additional generations of young.

FORBES: 'Work' and 'Home' Are Not True Distinctions