Sex and sociality: the genetics of being different

From ‘Inspiring Science’, Feb 1, 2013

“An international team of researchers studying fire ants have discovered the first ‘social chromosome’..

The mechanism the researchers uncovered is similar to how sex is determined in many animals, creating the tantalizing possibility that it might be an example of a more general mechanism for evolving distinctly different complex behaviours….”

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