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I was going to say you can also look at a country like this, with roads as veins, military as white blood cells, scientists/universities for brains, etc. But m
by koonsolo 7y ago
I was going to say you can also look at a country like this, with roads as veins, military as white blood cells, scientists/universities for brains, etc.
But my theory falls apart with the reproduction system. We don't really reproduce other 'countries'. While with ant colonies, a single entity produces all the "cells", and also all the "embryos" to start their own ant colonies.
In that sense an ant colony uses asexual reproduction if looked at as a whole.
Thanks for the new insights! :)
- cdo256 7y agoIn some ways that's what collonialism is. It doesn't happen as much these days but if/when we start colonizing other planets, that would be a form of countries (or unions) reproducing.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> It doesn't happen as much these days Oh, we still lay the eggs of new countries in the corpses of ones we kill.
- ta999999171 7y agoSearch 'Wikipedia US Involvement in Regime Change' for more details.
- andersonvieira 7y agoI'm not sure about ants, but with bees the males generally come from other colonies. A princess mating with males from the same colony may cause problems in the offspring.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> But my theory falls apart with the reproduction system. We don't really reproduce other 'countries'. Sure we do. The UK has a whole lot of offspring, for instance.
- yesbabyyes 7y agoOffspring, perhaps. But kidnapping is not reproduction.
- dibujaron 7y agoI'd say it's reproduction, it's just not voluntary reproduction. Every time a culture invades another, you can think of it as creating a new culture that has the "genes" of the previous two. Examples include the influence of the moors on Spain, the changes to the English language due to the Norman conquest, and the modern unique Afrikaner culture of South Africa.
- hutzlibu 7y agoI'd say it is a mix. Partly reproduction, partly conquering. As usual the place is not empty.
- UnFleshedOne 7y agoXenomorphs (or less exotically, parasitic wasps) reproduce just fine in that style.
- Lambdanaut 7y agoCountries die and are reborn as new countries. The USA is a child of England. Countries definitely do reproduce, usually on a longer cycle than that of the humans that make them up.