Darwin's Children Drew All over the "On the Origin of Species" Manuscript (2014)

Re:Darwin's Children Drew All over the "On the Origin of Spe... by tpudlik on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @05:52PM (#43710810)

I had to look up the article to figure out if this was the intolerable downside of having kids (all this work raising them, and then they just fly out of the nest) or _not_ having them (with your scientific work the only great project of your life). I believe he meant the latter :)

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Re:Darwin's Children Drew All over the "On the Origin of Spe... by Nition on Thursday April 17, 2025 @12:53AM (#43713229)

Yeah it's in the marriage pros section, so I assume it's the latter. And worker bees can't reproduce.

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Re:Darwin's Children Drew All over the "On the Origin of Spe... by bregma on Thursday April 17, 2025 @01:30PM (#43719853)

Worker bees will reproduce when the hive queen's suppression pheremone disappears. Of course, they're not fertilized so they only produce haploid offspring, who in the bee world are all male and hence useless for anything but mating with a queen. Worker bees can't mate.

But I understand the sentiment.

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Re:Darwin's Children Drew All over the "On the Origin of Spe... by Nition on Friday April 18, 2025 @06:03AM (#43726557)

Haha, thank you for the correction but also thank you for appending that last sentence, because otherwise I was going to say "Yes, okay, but Darwin probably didn't mean..."

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