Damaraland mole-rats live underground in rodent versions of beehives, but their family ties aren’t very beelike, according to a new analysis of their genetics.
Bees, ants, and some other truly social insects inherit genes in such a way that sisters tend to share exactly the same forms of an especially large proportion of their genes.
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