Kropotkin in a nutshell
this post was submitted on 26 May 2026
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Lol so many people in this thread have been brainwashed.
Do you y'all seriously believe in Ants??!??
We live in a society
for ants
Fun fact: most known ant species' workers are 0.01% genetically different than each other (ie. queen[s]:mate[s] ratio), and therefore are closer to clones than individual consciousnesses, strictly speaking. ☝🏼🤓
closer to clones than individual consciousnesses
You know that genetic clones are still individuals with independent brains, right?
Like twins don't have to take on the same profession or have the same personality. They're about as mentally different as any other random person.
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You're mixing being a clone with being the same individual and sharing a mind, which are completely different things.
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This is wrong. They get the same DNA father side because male ants are haploid (meaning they have one chromosome of each instead of a pair like diploids) but they get different genes from their mother so they are more closely related than human siblings but no where near your made up number. They are still 25% different
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It is in their nature to work like this. They are specialised drones serving that exact purpose. The queen is btw no different. It is the DNA housing drone that produces all kind of drones. Their brains are pheromonally connected. Most possibly they share one brain (and consciousness) and are equipped for some brain parts "getting lost". It is anthropomorphizing to assume that they act like a human kingdom, where the queen (or king) is the upmost of all things to achieve in one or the other way. Ants are also all female. Only drones for mating are male.
Where ants are concerned, drone refers specifically to the males who are born to mate and then die. The sterile females are called workers.
I've always heard to the referred to as male alates
I love how the first clown makeup iteration was built in by nature of this being a false color EM
The thing that makes him a clown is thinking the queen is in charge.
But like who is in charge?
There's not really such a thing as 'in charge' for ants. The colony is a single multi-body organism.
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Holy shit why did I do this I'm laughing so hard right now
solo leveling arguably did ant-taur? better
I ant serious, and don’t call me Shirley.
Like the dogstar? Man I wish my parents had named me something cool....
You could also make meme about queen working hard in hope for retirement :)
But the proteins compel me.
what happened to 40(?) percent of workers sitting idle to act as backups?
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