I vaguely remember a paper claiming that individual ants can pass the mirror test. Though it may have been in a predatory journal and unreplicated.
I have doubts you'd get far with mere war. Ants have been waging endless war on each other for millions of years.
They've had agriculture since before the ancestors of humans were little ratlike things hiding in burrows.
As for mutation: you have to think of each hive as a single organism that lives for a year or so with the Queen as the reproductive organs. Mutating individual workers does you no good.
On Mon, Dec 24, 2018, 7:55 PM Jonathan Cline <jcline@ieee.org wrote:
Evolution and/or genetic engineering has been a successful strategy in
vector control for decades. Ask Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation
which has put hundreds of millions of dollars into using it as a
solution for various world wide catastrophes like malaria, zika,
dengue.
On 12/24/18, Raza <etcwar_d@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, there's no way* that* could
> go horribly wrong, with how insects tend to wander into human-inhabited
> territories at random at delve out new niches for themselves. Probably
> worth it?
>
> On Saturday, December 22, 2018 at 8:39:34 PM UTC, Jonathan Cline wrote:
>>
>> Evolve ant colonies to collect and/or digest plastic pollution and you
>> have a world-saving and trillion-dollar award winning project.
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>> On Sunday, December 16, 2018 at 2:55:15 AM UTC-8, Ozymandias wrote:
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>>> I thought about the following experiment:
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>>> 2 or more ant colonies
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>>> Any input?
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