The progressive rise in the estimated number of subfamilies in a colony
started more than a decade ago, but jumped significantly the last
decade. Not a very newsworthy item for the never ending superficial
popular reports, but it has many ramifications for understanding colony
dynamics and for breeding and selection.
Many findings in the last decade have been confirmatory, it would
seem.
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