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Ant Queen Breaks the Rules of Biology by Producing Male Offspring That Are a Different Species

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Clickbait website breaks the rules of epistemology by declaring that biology has "rules".
Woo biology at it again!
This was a fun read, thanks!
Otherkins coming to share the article in 3...
- I love otherkin, they're so interesting and cool
It’s like an ant hive.
So that whore queen was misogynizing with foreign ants!
If everyone just kept producing their own species we wouldn't have goddamn evolution.
0/10 headline. Not scientific.
- That's not how evolution works. Tiny changes in your offspring doesn't create a totally different species in one generation like that, it takes a long time.
  This discovery goes against our understanding of biology and the headline is fine
  
  This discovery goes against ~~our~~ my understanding of biology and the headline is fine
  I think anybody with a reasonable level of understanding of biology realizes that categorization by "species" is not at all precise or objective.
  
  Although you're not wrong, you might want to have a look at punctuated equilibrium. Sometimes evolution goes brrr
  
  Maybe this is more of philosophical question, but at some point the line to an organism being a new species is crossed and the parent would be a different species than the offspring right? Or is that line a lot fuzzier? I understand “new species” is very much a human nomenclature and construct so this might just be a moot point.
  
  Pretty sure OP was joking.

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