It's interesting to speculate what would happen if that self-policing act were not to occur.

Pretty soon one ant would start laying eggs after the others had stopped.
This would mean it's offspring would outbreed the others' and the mutation to continue laying eggs would be propagated to the majority of the next generation.
With then many ants continuing to lay egges ever fewer ants would forage for food which would lead to the collapse of the colony.
(at first i thought it would lead to a queen-like centralization. But now that I think about it collapse would be more likley)

Sounds like what socialists want to do with 'humanity'.

Humans do this in the context of tribes as well. This is the purpose of bullying, to reduce the chances that defects will survive to reproduce.

I once saw a group of crows in a parking lot, surrounding and attacking one individual that was on its back. I assumed it was a similar activity.

Religions make it even easier to identify and remove those who cannot conform.

I could see some eugenics researcher using this data to mandate human selective breeding programs.
The USG and Planned Parenthood are doing this now with abortions.

Otto, please don't help Jon derail this into an argument about politics. Just let him rant alone.

RyggTard has never so clearly identified himself as an enemy of science.

"Sounds like what socialists want to do with 'humanity'." - RyggTard

It explains the hate he has expressed for science and scientists in other comments he has made.

It also explains is willful ignorance of science and his existence in Republican fantasy land.

You mean selective breeding like the popularity of first cousing marrying in the Parasite Red states?

"I could see some eugenics researcher using this data to mandate human selective breeding programs." - RyggTard

If ants are socialists then they practically prove it's merits by surviving over 100,000,000 years. Good point ryggee!

I could see some eugenics researcher using this data to mandate human selective breeding programs.
The USG and Planned Parenthood are doing this now with abortions.


The only problem with your comment is there are NO eugenics researchers as you use the terms or any scientifically trained individual using his skills towards a eugenics goal.

And your comment about Planned Parenthood and abortions well honestly how would you know that when its clear you never come out of your cave and only get news from Fox and Limbaugh.

Once again, the resident cranks derail another article with their blatantly rule-breaking political bullshit.

Rumor has it that RyggTard is hold up in a bunker like his Child Molester hero, David Koresh, and is holding a 5 year old autistic boy hostage.

http://abcnews.go...18374414

He is upset that the world has not adopted the ideology of welfare queen Ayn Rand, and won't come out until everyone names themselves after a typewriter as Ayn Rand did.

The only problem with your comment is there are NO eugenics researchers as you use the terms or any scientifically trained individual using his skills towards a eugenics goal.
-That you know of. That you are aware of, is what you mean, yes?

"Eugenics is the applied science of the bio-social movement which advocates practices that improve the genetic composition of a population, usually a human population. It is a social philosophy advocating the improvement of human hereditary traits through the promotion of higher reproduction of more desired people and traits, and reduced reproduction of less desired people and traits."

-I, and herrnstein, would argue that society has been reconfigured since ww2 along eugenic lines by removing more intelligent people from their incipient cultures and sending them to universities, and from there into professions, where they are encouraged to choose mates with similar abilities.

But even beyond this we can speculate that countries like the US were established to offer the opportunity for the brightest, most ambitious, and most pragmatic people from around the world to abandon their incipient cultures and emigrate. Their children are then encouraged to comingle.

Watch Randite Republican Paul Ryan answer RyggTard's insane complaint, then move on to denouncing the philosophy of Ayn Rand, and try and then attempt to change topic to avoid his previousy claimed devotion to her cause...

http://www.youtub...JnVvfnJk

I could have sworn this article was about ants...

A member of the "inferior breed", RyggTard foolishly tried to make it about Eugenics.

http://www.youtub...-MblP9VM

With regard to Ants, I will speculate.

It is very possible that there is, or was, an advantage to the nest organism, to have reproduction occur at one time for the colony so that labor can be more efficiently organized, or that defense of the colony can be greater during a single period of reproduction.

It is also possible that the ant brain is more easily partitioned into operating modes, one for colony construction and another for reproduction, and that more nuanced modes of operation are not easily evolved from the current local optimum conditions.

The drivers of evolution are many, and most often surprisingly subtle.

Otto is correct about this of course. America had been an intellectual parasite nation for a long time.

"But even beyond this we can speculate that countries like the US were established to offer the opportunity for the brightest, most ambitious, and most pragmatic people from around the world to abandon their incipient cultures and emigrate." - Otto

However, after WWII there was a period of enlightenment among those who had seen real war, and American Universities became leading educators for the world. Even those who would return to their own countries with the knowledge.

This was a great benefit to the world and the U.S. for a variety of reasons, that are all obvious.

It has, however, most recently become a detriment to the U.S. as American Corporations were encouraged by Republicans to close up their American facilities and move to foreign nations where labor costs were lower, and environmental standards were lower.

Wage stagnation and unemployment are the result.