To Be Queen

[Tyria]

Link

 

[A22]

That's very intersting. You can find royal jelly in drugstores here. My mother used to give me that when I had a cold.

 

[AlisaD]

*starts om nom nomming*

 

[Hadoblado]

Holy shit this excites me just a little. Also, the chat section is hilarious.

 

[Anthile]

*starts om nom nomming*

You will never be a pretty princess. Give it up.

 

[crippli]

You will never be a pretty princess. Give it up.

We can all be pretty princesses imho. Giving up is to admit defeat.

 

[Cavallier]

This is fascinating.

Holy shit this excites me just a little. Also, the chat section is hilarious.

Hah, yeah the conversation about growing giant kittens was hilarious.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

We can all be pretty princesses imho. Giving up is to admit defeat.

There can be only one pretty princess.

 

[Cavallier]

Yarr?

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Touche

 

[digital angel]

Interesting.

 

[BigApplePi]

I can see some of you want to be queen. I'm going to hold off till I see more of what's it's like.

 

[digital angel]

I pass on queendom.

 

[Vrecknidj]

What many people don't even notice is the really interesting commentary this has on the nature/nurture debate. First, and foremost, I entirely disagree that there even is a dichotomy here. There is no "nature OR nurture" to talk about, it's always been "nature AND nurture." But I digress.

Two bees can be genetically identical but phenotypically quite different. And, in this case, we see that what makes a particular organism the queen isn't anything particular about its genes but rather something particular about its diet.

We see this in other places as well, throughout the animal kingdom, but also in people. Heck, birth order in humans is itself a type of polyphenism.

Lots more here than immediately meets the eye.

Dave