Introduction

So, what am I going to tell you.  That I am reading a little further into Dawkins The Selfish Gene, because I want to be sure of the point here, which defines the importance of drones in honeybee colonies.  Honeybee queens are polyandrous, which means their offspring come from many fathers, which are the drones.  The drones themselves are diploid, meaning they grow from unfertilised queen eggs and have only one set of chromosomes that come from the mother... which makes them more like the queen's brothers, or diploid descendants of the queen's father and mother.  Female worker bees are diploid, and although they share the same mother they can have different fathers, generating genetic diversity in the workers.  The up side of this is a workforce with a mixed skill set, while the downside in terms of genetic relatedness is diminishing altruism.  However this is counterbalanced by the many Uncles who are equally related to all the workforce. Yadda yadda yadda.
So on with the point, which is what is Darwinian altruism?  So let us skip on from origins and replicators and get straight to genes and the idea that we (all life on earth) are survival machines for our genes.

Notes from Richard Dawkin's Selfish Gene

Competition
Imagination is human simulation.  It belongs to a different temporal reality... a multiverse.
"The evolution of the capacity to simulate seems to have culminated in subjective consciousness... Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain's simulation of the world becomes so complete that it must include a model of itself."
A gene is like a behavioral function - overall behavior can seen as a collection of these functions - so the W C Rothenbuhler "Behavior Genetics of Nest Cleaning in Honey Bees. IV. Responses of F1 and Backcross Generations to Disease-Killed Brood " example of hygienic behaviour in honeybees with reference to ejecting infected brood cells requires a gene for uncapping cells and another gene for throwing the contents out.  (Dawkins Selfish Gene p60)
Antecedent:  a thing that existed before or logically precedes another.  Ancestor. 
   Precedent: an earlier event or action that is regarded as an example or guide to be considered in subsequent similar circumstances.
Evolutionary Stable Strategy: ESS:  a strategy which, if most members of a population adopt, cannot be bettered by an alternative strategy.  Conspiracy and Treachery.
Stable Polymorphism & Genetic Polymorphism & Temporal Polyethism.
Natural Selection & Balancing Selection