This week Zach and Kelly talk about oxygen injections and exploding termites.
Links
Article 1: Oxygen gas-filled microparticles provide intravenous oxygen delivery
Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees
Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care
Article 2: Explosive backpacks on old termite workers
When considering how exploding termites could evolve, instead of thinking of individuals or the colony or the queen, think of the gene. In evolutionary terms, individuals or communities are both just means of reproducing the genetic material.
That is such a simplistic view of genetics that it doesn’t even deserve a response. Reproduction of genetic material is a primary driver for organisms but you say that like the gene has control. That is clearly false.