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Ant Has Given Up Sex Completely, Researchers Confirm
sciencedaily ^
| Jan. 9, 2010
Posted on 01/09/2010 11:04:07 AM PST by JoeProBono
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Mycocepurus smithii ants tending their fungus garden. These are the only known completely asexual ants in the world. (Credit: Photo courtesy of Alex Wild /
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
01/09/2010 11:06:22 AM PST
by
lonster
To: JoeProBono
Must have gotten married.
To: Larry Lucido
>>Must have gotten married<<
to my ex-wife.
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posted on
01/09/2010 11:11:33 AM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
To: freedumb2003
Ah, see? They got into the wedding cake!
To: JoeProBono
The last photo looks like ‘Memories of Woodstock’.
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posted on
01/09/2010 11:13:09 AM PST
by
UCANSEE2
To: JoeProBono
The sex probably wasn’t that great in the first place...
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posted on
01/09/2010 11:16:51 AM PST
by
Hoosier-Daddy
("It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
To: JoeProBono
Researchers also noticed these ants have the smallest turkey-basters they have ever seen....
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posted on
01/09/2010 11:23:56 AM PST
by
PGR88
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
01/09/2010 11:24:12 AM PST
by
stormer
To: JoeProBono
Most social insects...are relatively used to daily life without males. Their colonies are well run by swarms of sterile sisters lorded over by an egg-laying queen.
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posted on
01/09/2010 11:27:27 AM PST
by
Talisker
(When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
To: lonster
Do we HAVE to bring my nieces and nephews into this?
;-)
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posted on
01/09/2010 11:31:32 AM PST
by
bannie
(Somebody has to go to seed...it might as well be me!)
To: JoeProBono
Not THIS ant...
To: Snickering Hound
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posted on
01/09/2010 11:48:49 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
My uncle isn’t taking it so well.
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posted on
01/09/2010 11:52:25 AM PST
by
dangus
(Nah, I'm not really Jim Thompson, but I play him on FR.)
To: JoeProBono
That’s a turmite, not an ant. ;^)
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posted on
01/09/2010 11:54:44 AM PST
by
dangus
(Nah, I'm not really Jim Thompson, but I play him on FR.)
To: Talisker
To: JoeProBono
sounds like the democRATS to me....
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posted on
01/09/2010 12:52:58 PM PST
by
Chode
(American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: lonster
We humans have a few well-known places like this where females rule. They’re called ‘’colleges’’and ‘’universities’’ They have names like “Vassar’’, “Smith’’ and “Bryn Mawr’’. Why these place haven’t seen males....at all! Ever! :-)
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posted on
01/09/2010 1:43:54 PM PST
by
John-Irish
("Shame of him who thinks of it''.)
To: JoeProBono
"Come on! She's kinda hot! Ah'd do her, if Ah weren't married."
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posted on
01/09/2010 1:47:07 PM PST
by
Yaelle
To: JoeProBono
"Asexual species don't mix their genes through recombination, so you expect harmful mutations to accumulate over time and for the species to go extinct more quickly than others. They don't generally persist for very long over evolutionary time."
Thanks JoeProBono, bfl.
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posted on
01/09/2010 7:31:42 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Happy New Year! Freedom is Priceless.)
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