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Also mantis shrimp and naked mole rats. These are all creatures that have evolved a reproducing queen and sterile workers. However, I don't like the definition
by enkid 3y ago
Also mantis shrimp and naked mole rats. These are all creatures that have evolved a reproducing queen and sterile workers. However, I don't like the definition of calling a colony of such creatures an "organism" because it implies the only purpose of an organism to reproduce. You then end up getting weird edge cases like fig trees and fig wasps being a "single organism." Also, male/female pairs of humans would be a strong angle organism.
- WalterBright 3y ago> it implies the only purpose of an organism to reproduce Isn't that the evolutionary purpose (if there is a purpose at all) of all life?