MORPHOMETRICS, LIFE HISTORY AND POPULATION BIOLOGY OF THE PONTO-CAUCASIAN SLAVE-MAKING ANT MYRMOXENUS TAMARAE (HYMENOPTERA: FORMICIDAE)

Morphometrics, life history and population biology of the Ponto-Caucasian slave-making ant Myrmoxenus tamarae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Abstract.The ant genus Myrmoxenus consists of about ten socially parasitic species including active slave-makers and workerless "degenerate slave-makers".Myrmoxenus tamarae was previously known only from type material, two workers collected at Daba, Georgia and nothing was known about its life history, colony structure or the morphology of its sexu

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Design of collective choices and aggregation of preferences: from the fear and the rhetoric to the game theory and neuromarketing

This work paper article aims to sound anchor adj2 describe the historical development of the set of technologies and devices discursive, rational, cognitive and political engineering aimed at shaping and influencing the processes through which communities and societies make their collective choices, legitimizing through this process their levels of

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