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A SoCal beetle that poses as an ant may have answered a key question about evolution (www.latimes.com)
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[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

The finding has implications outside the insect kingdom. It provides a basis for “entrenchment,” Parker said. In other words, once an intimate symbiotic relationship forms — in which at least one organism depends on another for survival — it’s locked in. There’s no going back.