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How stealth organs make super soldier ants (Ep 91)

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The Body Plan of Ants Among the Insects

The body plan of ants among the insects is a whole other Amazing circus act of plasticity that if you look at the ants and find these giant super soldiers That's all cool, but it's an embellishment on a theme, right? So my my argument would be I don't know my perspective my naive backbone bias perspective Would be the yeah ants are a simpler version of plasticity. Does it even make sense? It sounds like a lot of this maybe is dependent on the fact of the being you social and colonies acting like Superorganisms.

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