cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7777980
A new study has now provided the first proof of an ant species that lacks both workers and males and consists exclusively of queens.
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Somebody phone Ru Paul.
Ahhh, yes. Ants. My favorite ‘missed the mark’ discussion on my lack of hope in humanity was from my fellow anarchist friends. I am a staunch evolution nerd and they were like, ‘nah - traits that favor trashy brute behavior aren’t valid - just read Paul Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid to have a better feels.’ I did and got to chapter six before wanting to beat Paul’s ass because his argument was basically ’ trust in humanity and the world because insects like ants can get along’. Never mind the fact that if one ant doesn’t share what it has with another than the colony will dismember it. Or how other animals fear ant colonies when they move into their territory. Hope in humanity not restored and I also hate ants even more.
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“Now, the latest study shows that on top of killing the host queen, T kinomurai also reproduces asexually by producing clones of itself, and tricks the surviving host workers into rearing the offspring.”
So do the clones then convince the workers to kill the original clone? Repeat until the colony falls apart because workers aren’t being produced?
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IIRC, those specialists are antomologists.
Most often confused with a near-homonym, “ehtymologist”, someone who kinda studies ok words sometimes.
There’s gotta be a point at which sexual reproduction comes into play, otherwise it’s an evolutionary dead end
If that were true then sexual reproduction couldn’t possibly have evolved in the first place
When competing with an entire ecosystem of sexually reproducing species, it’s an evolutionary dead end.
Kinda seems like you don’t actually understand how evolution works
Can you explain why you think that?
Non-sexual genetic exhange exists, creatures that do not sexually reproduce are verifiably existing alongside and competing with ones that do right now
