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- adjective Exhibiting
unicoloniality .
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Examples
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Argentine ants are unicolonial, that is, they are all so genetically similar that they don't recognize other argentine ant colonies as different.
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One researcher writes, “Whereas evolutionary biology can rarely predict where any species is going, it does predict that, despite their short-term ecological success, unicolonial ants are an evolutionary dead end.”
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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One researcher writes, “Whereas evolutionary biology can rarely predict where any species is going, it does predict that, despite their short-term ecological success, unicolonial ants are an evolutionary dead end.”
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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189 Called unicolonies, they have billions of members and stretch over thousands of kilometers: Helanterä, “Do unicolonial wood ants favor kin?” p.1.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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189 Called unicolonies, they have billions of members and stretch over thousands of kilometers: Helanterä, “Do unicolonial wood ants favor kin?” p.1.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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