Crop domestication is a balancing act: Some ants are still trying to get it right
Saturday, September 3, 2016 - 05:01
in Biology & Nature
The ancestors of leaf-cutter ants swapped a hunter-gatherer lifestyle for a bucolic existence on small-scale subsistence farms. A new study has revealed that living relatives of the earliest fungus-farming ants still have not domesticated their crop, a challenge also faced by early human farmers.