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> The human body and the ant colony are units of reproduction; an individual ant, like an individual cell, cannot reproduce. Only the colony or the human can do
by carbonguy 5y ago
> The human body and the ant colony are units of reproduction; an individual ant, like an individual cell, cannot reproduce. Only the colony or the human can do that.
I honestly don't know if you're trying to be rhetorical here or what, but individual cells DO reproduce and individual humans do not.
- thaumasiotes 5y agoA human cell dividing is not reproduction in the evolutionary sense, unless the cell is cancerous. It is reproduction in the same sense that my shoes can reproduce by means of me buying another pair when the first pair wears out.