If the power of the ant society is transferred from the worker ants to the queen, it is still based on the outstanding status of the queen itself, and it is an extremely long and spontaneous act of letting nature take its course.
Then the male ants took over the supreme power of the ant society, which happened in just a few thousand years. And some of the methods are even less than glorious.
When the queen ants rely on their superior intelligence to gain the trust of the worker ants and gain the highest power, they will soon discover their own shortcomings - lack of IQ.
This is not a joke. Yes, although the queen ant has high intelligence, its level is still not enough to perfectly handle everything big and small in the entire nest like a computer.
The collective decision-making of the worker ants is basically based on instinct. Once the collective decision-making goes wrong, the entire nest will be put in danger, but they don't care, or they can't predict the consequences at all.
But queen ants are different. They are intelligent and instinctively seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. But how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages? It is not possible for their little minds to see clearly the development trends and patterns after the decision-making.
At this time, the disadvantage of being alone is reflected. They don't even have anyone to discuss with. Even in a nest with multiple queens, it is difficult for a few queens to have enough energy to take care of the dual tasks of reproduction and decision-making.
At this time, the queen ant needs someone to help share her decision-making work.
On the one hand, the queen ant naturally returns some underlying decision-making power to the worker ants, allowing the worker ants to execute based on their own genetic judgment when encountering some simple problems. Such as spontaneous search for food and so on.
On the other hand, the queen ant is also slowly looking for assistants when it comes to making important decisions. At this time, a special group of ants in the ant colony came into the queen's sight.
They are not engaged in production, so they have a lot of time to assist the queen in making decisions; they are well supplied by the nest and have sufficient nutrition, so their intelligence level is not lower than that of the queen; their larger number can effectively make up for the lack of queen ants. Weaknesses form collective wisdom.
This is the male ant class.
Thus, with the tacit approval of the queen, the male ant class came into contact with power for the first time, and power is poison to any animal.
For the sake of power, people can kill their loved ones. For the sake of power, lions and wolves will kill and eradicate people in order to compete for the position of king.
After the male ants have tasted the poison of power, they will not give up easily again.
On the one hand, after possessing power, the male ants no longer live in fear in the ant nest, and do not have to fear that the nominally "sisters" worker ants will expel them to death when food is insufficient.
At this time, the wisdom of the male ants has become an important resource for the entire ant nest, and naturally cannot be wasted easily. Their life safety is better guaranteed.
Even after a long evolution, male ants are allowed to return to the nest after their nuptial flight and continue to perform their role as think tanks. At this time, the male ants completely got rid of their single role of reproduction and officially entered the decision-making level.
On the other hand, as the male ants came into contact with power, they began to rely on their numerical advantage to overwhelm the queen ant and gradually monopolized the highest power. They had a higher status and enjoyed a more abundant supply of resources.
It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality. Once their vital interests are involved, male ants will not give up their existing status and resources easily.
The male ants began to gradually exclude the queen from the decision-making circle, completely reducing the queen to a reproductive machine with a high status, sufficient supply but no real power, just like the status of the male ants at the beginning.
In terms of power, the process of male ants gradually replacing the queen does not happen overnight! Instead, it lasted for thousands of years and tens of thousands of years, and this process even started from the very beginning of the matriarchal society of ants.
Male ants are the only male class in the ant world, and their rise in power also symbolizes the transformation of ant society from a matriarchal clan to a paternal clan.
The Big-headed Ant Kingdom and the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom are the most progressive groups in this regard, and in some groups, this process is far from over, and some have even just begun.
Let's look back at how human society transformed from matrilineal clans to patrilineal clans.
About 5,500 to 4,000 years ago, my country's matrilineal clan society was replaced by patrilineal clan society. Ancient humans entered a patrilineal clan society. From then on, the era of male dominance began and continues to this day. Even though various women's rights movements are in full swing today, they cannot change the reality of male supremacy for the time being.
Patriarchal clan society is a new social and cultural system and one of the most profound changes in human history. This change was in line with the development of productivity at that time.
Due to the further development of agriculture and handicrafts, men's status and role in production have become larger and larger, and the social center has naturally shifted. Therefore, the development from a matrilineal clan society to a patrilineal clan society is an inevitable requirement for the development of social productivity.
Men gradually occupied a dominant position in major production sectors such as agriculture, animal husbandry, and handicrafts. Matriarchy naturally transitioned to patriarchy, and patrilineal clan communes gradually formed. From then on, the individual family centered on patriarchy became a force against the clan, and primitive society gradually disintegrated. Men rely on their economic advantages to occupy a dominant position in social production and life.
In a patriarchal clan society, men have higher property rights and social status than women. Family and marriage relationships have also changed from "living from the wife" to "living from the husband" in the matrilineal clan society. Children naturally no longer belong to the matrilineal clan and become paternal. A member of the clan becomes the heir to his father's property.
In a patriarchal clan society, with the development of social productivity and the surplus of labor results, some people are able to possess the fruits of others' labor and use the labor wealth they already possess to serve others. As a result, the phenomenon of rich and poor emerges, and private property begins to sprout. . The change in the wealth gap is the basis for the emergence of classes. In the later period of the patriarchal clan society, the clan society began to collapse and class society began to emerge.
It can be seen that the driving force and reason for the transformation of human society from matrilineal clan to patrilineal clan is the development and demand of productivity, or in short, the ability to obtain food. In this regard, with the agricultural revolution, stronger men became more advantageous.
The ant society is similar. Because the ants themselves have a strong ability to obtain food, intelligence is valued more by the ants than strength. Only with a smart decision-making layer can a weak ant colony compete with predators and other Ant colony, surviving the battle with nature.
Therefore, the individually highly intelligent queen ant takes over the reins from the worker ants, and is subsequently replaced by males of similar intelligence but greater numbers.
