On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> I don't see why Darwin would prevent it if circumstances favored it. >> And there is a counterexample, Naked Mole Rats are not hyper-intelligent >> but they're smarter than insects and are mammals and are almost as social >> as the social insects. >> > > > > Cool, I didn't know eusocial mammals existed. I couldn't figure this out > on a quick search: do they also have supersisters / haplodiploidy? > No, but not all social insects are haploid either, termites are as social as ants but unlike ants termites are diploid. Usually in a naked mole rat colony only a single female reproduces even though other females are biologically capable of doing so. > > One problem I can see is that sharing genetic code to such an extent might > make it harder to avoid local maxima in the fitness landscape > Only if the individual is the fundamental unit that natural selection works on but I don't think that is the case, I think natural selection works on the gene. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
