Ant royalty is about both nature and nurture

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Ant royalty is about both nature and nurture

Whether an ant becomes a dominant queen or a lowly worker is determined by both nature and nurture, it turns out.


A new study found that an ant's social status in its colony depends both on its genetic inheritance and the food it eats when it is young.


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