What Darwin Didn't Know: The Modern Science of Evolution Season 1 Episode 16 The Sterile Worker Paradox

TV-PG
January 4, 2019
32 min

Why was Darwin afraid that ants might undermine his theory of natural selection? Delve into the sterile worker paradox: the puzzle of why ants and other eusocial species evolved to have large numbers of non-reproducing offspring. Since the ability to reproduce is central to natural selection, this feature, which is common among insects and also present in other animals, demands explanation.

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