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The speaker described ant colonies as exhibiting more socialist behavior because the gene pool is transmitted through the queen.

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“you know, referring to like you have ant colonies, for example, where the whole gene pool has to be titrated through the queen.”
“And so you just see much more like socialist behavior in the ant colony.”
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