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How is learning performed than? By means of genetic evolution - on the level of a individual or the whole colony (queens mutations)?
by eurekin 3y ago
How is learning performed than? By means of genetic evolution - on the level of a individual or the whole colony (queens mutations)?
- eigenket 3y agoI guess it happens on multiple levels. No reason it would be exclusive to one. Certainly individual ants learn stuff https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.190778 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.190778 But adaptions also happen by evolution and (very speculatively) might also happen at the colony level by it changing its responses somehow. E.g. I could imagine an ant colony suddenly faced with many attackers adapting by breeding more soldiers.