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> Ant genomics declare 'checkmate' to red king theory

Interesting stuff, but they've only shown mutualism increased the rate of evolution (compared to non-mutualists) in a few species of ants. It's not unreasonable that the difference also holds for most other species, but having only looked at three species of ants (plus four more in the non-mutualist control group), it seems more like "check" than "checkmate."