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(Greek > Latin: generation, genesis, origination; creation [Greek: gonos, -gonia > Latin: -gonia, "that which is begotten, offspring"])
(Latin: birth, beget; descent, origin, creation, inception, beginning, race, sort; kind, class)
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socialgenesis, social genesis
The procedures by which individual ants undergo changes in caste, behavior, and physical location incident to colonial development.

The behavior of a colony of ants as a whole can be understood only if the programs and positional effects of the individual members are both specified and explained more deeply at the physiological level; however, such data is still far from being complete.

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