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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  • protist@mander.xyz
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    2 days ago

    There’s gotta be a point at which sexual reproduction comes into play, otherwise it’s an evolutionary dead end

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      1 day ago

      If that were true then sexual reproduction couldn’t possibly have evolved in the first place

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        1 day ago

        When competing with an entire ecosystem of sexually reproducing species, it’s an evolutionary dead end.

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              11 hours ago

              Non-sexual genetic exhange exists, creatures that do not sexually reproduce are verifiably existing alongside and competing with ones that do right now