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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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Again, what other animals are there that reproduce only asexually? Of course there can be advantages to reproducing asexually, however every other multicellular animal that does it also reproduces sexually at times, because those that don’t reproduce sexually have gone extinct
From some quick research just now, all these species are female-only and reproduce asexually:
It’s nowhere near as common as sexual reproduction, but it doesn’t mean it’s an evolutionary dead-end.
Plenty of sexually-reproducing species have gone extinct too: that’s not an argument that sexual reproduction is unfavourable.