Huge 'Supersoldier' Ants Are Evolutionary Throwbacks (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Huge 'Supersoldier' Ants Are Evolutionary Throwbacks (1 of 2)

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Soldiers and supersoldiers from the hyper-diverse ant genus Pheidole marching side by side to defend their nest. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 06, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by R. Rajakumar at McGill University in Montreal, QC, Canada, and colleagues was titled, “Ancestral Developmental Potential Facilitates Parallel Evolution in Ants.”

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