Re:European ant is the first known animal to clone members o...
by dsign on Thursday September 18, 2025 @04:07AM
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Martha Wells, the same lady whose Murderbot series made it to a TV serial, wrote "The Books of the Raksura"[^1], which is kind of like these ants, but with beautiful sentient species[^2].
[^2] When "Murderbot" made it to fame and acclaim but her other works, much richer in complexity and nuance, remained in relative obscurity, I started suspecting something is seriously wrong with our own species and that we need genes from another. Pity we murdered all our hominid cousins, we did used to do the business with them back in the day.
[^1]: https://www.goodreads.com/series/65591-the-books-of-the-raks...
[^2] When "Murderbot" made it to fame and acclaim but her other works, much richer in complexity and nuance, remained in relative obscurity, I started suspecting something is seriously wrong with our own species and that we need genes from another. Pity we murdered all our hominid cousins, we did used to do the business with them back in the day.