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Ant genomics challenge long-standing red king theory
- dang 10y agoUrl changed from https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160825084625.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160825084625.h..., since they're the same press release but this one seems more readable.
- qrendel 10y ago> Ant genomics declare 'checkmate' to red king theory Interesting stuff, but they've only shown mutualism increased the rate of evolution (compared to non-mutualists) in a few species of ants. It's not unreasonable that the difference also holds for most other species, but having only looked at three species of ants (plus four more in the non-mutualist control group), it seems more like "check" than "checkmate."
- grkvlt 10y agoThe title should be changed: it is actually a reference to the Red Queen theory, the idea based on the conversation in Alice Through the Looking Glass, where the Red Queen explains 'Here you must run as fast as you can just to stay in the same place.'
- egocodedinsol 10y agothe red king theory is actually what's discussed in the article. RK hypothesis is sort of an opposite hypothesis to the RQ hypothesis, and that's what's being addressed in this work.
- grkvlt 10y agooops; i skimmed the start only - my bad...