Were you going to argue that humans are much more usual when compared to other animals?
Absolutely, humans
are much more usual in terms of reproductive genetics and consequently of genetic distance amongst groups.
Are you suggesting that the bees understand that they are not going to have offspring and thus decide to die for the greater good? And to have suicide stingers?
Clearly not, but there is a considerably better kin selection trade off for an organism with a higher relatedness between worker siblings. Humans may show individual acts of self sacrificing altruism but the vast majority of individuals in a eusocial Bee colony are acting altruistically in terms of working for the reproductive benefit of the queen rather than themselves.
It seems to me that if a species can develop self-sacrificing behaviors as beneficial to a group, then why not others?
I agree, my point was that bees are an extreme example because they benefit genetically much more from group centred behaviour than in normal diploid reproducing organisms.
TTFN,
WK
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