Ant Slaves Rebel!

[parrhesia]

Stolen as larva, ants of another species serve the slave-taking colony up to a point. They raise the larva of the slavemasters, but then as those larva mature, their slave caretakers end up killing most of them either violently or through neglect, decimating the numbers of the slavemasters

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[hypatiasghost]

Yeah. I like your analysis of this. But that makes sense, because you are very smart.

It's also important to remember, Parr, that evolution isn't something that results in "perfect" solutions to problems. It is something that results in "a good enough solution." We're fascinated by how wonderfully constructed say, the eye is, but the eye is only as good as it has to be, and no better. Which is why it so often isn't all that good, and you and I and Dei wear glasses. This is basically what Dei said above, just more abstracted.