Eusociality has evolved independently in two genera of bathyergid mole-rats — but occurs in no other subterranean mammal
- 1 October 1993
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
- Vol. 33 (4), 253-260
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02027122
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