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Ep. 358 - Oaks, Wasps, Galls, and Ants

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The Ant Seed Interaction Is Not a Mutualism

The ant merma cockery thing gets repeated, as a lot of things do in science. And i came into your lab thinking, ye, of course it benefits the ants. They're getting food. But even thinking about it from that context, not a lot of evidence to suggest the ants need the mimecoker aceds. So why not the calls doing it? You get to see where this convergint evolution of just like ants are super social insects,. As any social organism, t t the selective pressures are diffused across large numbers and few reproductives.

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