(10-24-2025, 01:09 PM)Michigan Swamp Buck Wrote: With life centered around survival and the perpetuation of the species, selfishness is an essential aspect of living. We kill and destroy on a daily basis to continue our personal existence, which is a product of millions of our ancestors doing the same for their entire lives.
All we do is make things easier and faster for the same purpose, for the death and destruction necessary to survive and procreate more of our kind. Capitalism is based on this instinct of selfish survival. The more you have, will ensure that your progeny will live and be stronger and healthier than other competing humans.
A hive or rather ant colony, Polygyny, Oligogyny very interesting. Something about wasps
https://antwiki.org/wiki/Polygyny
Quote:Chapter 15. The specialized predators
Chapter 16. The army ants
Chapter 17. The fungus growers
Chapter 18. The harvesters
Chapter 19. The weaver ants
Sounds like us
Quote:Polygyny is the possession of multiple queens. Oligogyny is a special case of polygyny, in which two to several queens coexist in the same nest but remain well apart from one another (Hölldobler, 1962; Buschinger, 1974a). As a rule, oligogyny in ants is characterized by tolerance of workers toward supernumerary queens combined with intolerance among the queens, so that the queens space out in the same nest (Hölldobler and Carlin, 1985).
The number of queens profoundly alters several of the key features of colonial organization, including the kinship of the nestmates, the rate of colony growth, and the number and distribution of nests. The past ten years have witnessed an explosive growth of knowledge about this complex subject
Who is in charge: queens or workers?
Quote:The picture that has emerged in contemporary studies is the existence of a moderate amount of struggle within ant colonies. Queens and workers appear to be in general conflict over the management of the ratio of investment in new queens and males. In some species, under appropriate conditions, queens battle queens for principal reproductive rights. Workers compete with their nestmates for the same privileges in the absence of the queen and, in a few cases, even when the queen is present.