Its an interesting report that is right up the alley of our investigation into gendered biology, and then it takes the sci-fi twist right at the end...
Jacobus Boomsma, director of the Center for Social Evolution and a professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Copenhagen, told Discovery News, "Time will tell whether this ant is an ancient 'asexual scandal' that flies in the face of commonly accepted theory or whether there is a good explanation, albeit perhaps an unusual one."
His "hunch is that the answer lies in this ant being extremely Catholic in its association with a wide array of fungal partners."
Humans are, of course, a sexual species, but "in theory, genetic engineering could in the distant future enable male-less reproduction," Himler said. "A female could then reproduce without any male mate, whereas a male would still need a female mate to reproduce because males don't have the reproductive machinery to make babies."
She added, "How such theoretical societies would look is difficult to predict."
I add this in light of a reply I gave in the comment section recently...
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