Thursday, September 29, 2016

Crop domestication is a balancing act: Some ants are still trying to get it right

Skinny lines of ants snake through the rainforest carrying leaves and flowers above their heads — fertilizer for industrial-scale, underground fungus farms. Soon after the dinosaur extinctions 60 million years ago, the ancestors of leaf-cutter ants swapped a hunter-gatherer lifestyle...

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