Study confirms decades-long assumption about rare ant species

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.xyzEnglish
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    1 day ago

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

        • Amnesigenic@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          12 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