A bee colony is to a bee what you are to one of your cells. The author's attempts to apply group selection, kin selection or even natural selection to individua

A bee colony is to a bee what you are to one of your cells. The author's attempts to apply group selection, kin selection or even natural selection to individual bees is a misunderstanding of what is happening. There is no selfish calculus possible for individuals within a colony, they are all parts of the whole. Even the queen can get killed by the other bees if there is a younger more fit queen. Male bees leave the hive every day to fly to a congregation area to mate with potential queens. They are quite literally analogous to sperm cells.