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Title: Amazonian ant has dispensed of sex and developed into an all-female species
Post by: A.M. Thomas on April 15, 2009, 01:17:27 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7998931.stm

This is so awesome.  "This species - the first ever to be shown to reproduce entirely without sex - cultivates a garden of fungus, which also reproduces asexually."

Ants are such amazing creatures.  It makes me wonder why more species haven't evolved to regulate sexual reproduction.  Though, maybe we just haven't discovered them yet.  Evolution at work!

(Insert Andrea Dworkin joke here!)
Title: Re: Amazonian ant has dispensed of sex and developed into an all-female species
Post by: Kim Kelly on April 15, 2009, 02:28:38 PM
See also: Lesbian lizards of Cochise County (http://www.nerve.com/Regulars/scienceOfSex/09-19-00/).
Title: Re: Amazonian ant has dispensed of sex and developed into an all-female species
Post by: hugman on April 15, 2009, 03:20:18 PM
both of those things sound so hot....jpegs?  Whaaaaaaat?
Title: Re: Amazonian ant has dispensed of sex and developed into an all-female species
Post by: Sarah on April 15, 2009, 03:43:04 PM
Science fiction has been positing this kind of thing forever.  Come to think of it, humans may be in the running sooner than we think:  sperm counts are dropping worldwide.
Title: Re: Amazonian ant has dispensed of sex and developed into an all-female species
Post by: Trembling Eagle on April 17, 2009, 12:00:02 AM
sexual reproduction gives your species more versatility with genes.

I predict we'll soon ( in relative terms, maybe 5-600 years) dispense with purely random sexual selection and regulate or reproduction with our science.


Title: Re: Amazonian ant has dispensed of sex and developed into an all-female species
Post by: Regular Joe on April 17, 2009, 03:47:45 PM
sexual reproduction gives your species more versatility with genes.

I predict we'll soon ( in relative terms, maybe 5-600 years) dispense with purely random sexual selection and regulate or reproduction with our science.

And you thought you had a hard time getting laid NOW.
Title: Re: Amazonian ant has dispensed of sex and developed into an all-female species
Post by: Come on, Jason on April 17, 2009, 08:52:18 PM
And you thought you had a hard time getting laid NOW.

(http://barney.gonzaga.edu/%7Etlarson1/JeannieDarcy.jpg)
Don't even get me started!
Title: Re: Amazonian ant has dispensed of sex and developed into an all-female species
Post by: Emily on April 18, 2009, 11:04:04 AM
Wasn't this like the subplot of jurassic park?
Title: Re: Amazonian ant has dispensed of sex and developed into an all-female species
Post by: Regular Joe on April 18, 2009, 04:13:50 PM
And you thought you had a hard time getting laid NOW.

(http://barney.gonzaga.edu/%7Etlarson1/JeannieDarcy.jpg)
Don't even get me started!

I deserved this, 100%.
Title: Re: Amazonian ant has dispensed of sex and developed into an all-female species
Post by: scratchbomb on April 19, 2009, 06:48:50 PM
The male ants died out because they wouldn't ask for directions to the womens' anthills! Am I right? Ladies, back me up on this!
Title: Re: Amazonian ant has dispensed of sex and developed into an all-female species
Post by: Trembling Eagle on April 21, 2009, 03:05:28 AM
The male ants died out because they wouldn't ask for directions to the womens' anthills! Am I right? Ladies, back me up on this!

BOOM!