Well, the aspens are a single clone and the individual ants aren’t.
But I’ve always considered that the individual ants (and worker bees too for hives) are more like human skin cells: Useful and important but not individually: the loss of some of them doesn’t mean anything to the nest (or hive) which is what I think of as the real organism.
Well, the aspens are a single clone and the individual ants aren’t.
But I’ve always considered that the individual ants (and worker bees too for hives) are more like human skin cells: Useful and important but not individually: the loss of some of them doesn’t mean anything to the nest (or hive) which is what I think of as the real organism.