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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    13 hours ago

    Yeah I read it, I’m saying that if an animal is only reproducing via cloning forever, it’s an evolutionary dead end, because they will have completely lost the ability to adapt to environmental changes

    • gid@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      11 hours ago

      No necessarily: mutations will still happen. But there will not be any genetic crossing over that will contribute to greater variance.