>because of the unusual reproductive strategy they use where all the members of a hive are siblings Specifically, eusocial insects are haplodiploidic, where wo

>because of the unusual reproductive strategy they use where all the members of a hive are siblings Specifically, eusocial insects are haplodiploidic, where workers are more related to each other (sharing 75% of their genes) than they would be to their own children, which reduces the genetic incentive to defect from the cooperative structure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplodiploidy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplodiploidy This sounds outrageously strange, but something similar can happen in humans: identical twins are also more related to each other than to their children.