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by BurningFrog 496 days ago
The ants in a colony has mostly identical DNA.

So you can think of it as a single organism that has a "distributed" body.

From that perspective, the individual ants correspond to cells or organs, and it becomes both less and more fantastic :)

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Interesting, may be that's why they can communicate so efficiently and wouldn't mind to work hard for the greater good.