Once they’ve mated, the role of the male ants is over and they tend to die within a week. Female ants, uh, chew off their ...

Trophic egg influence on the larval caste fate To determine whether trophic eggs influence the process of caste determination, we compared the development of freshly hatched (first instar) larvae ...

Ant genomes reveal how social insects evolved cooperation, preserved caste genes, and rewired chromosomes over 100 million ...

The “caste system” is still depicted by media like the BBC as a horrifying straitjacket, that shackles Hindus lifelong at birth.

However, the battle over caste identity continues, as it remains a struggle for both access to resources and access to status. In the traditional system, those with status gained resources.

Leafcutter ants live in highly organized colonies where every ant has a job, and now researchers can flip those jobs like a switch. By manipulating just two neuropeptides, scientists can turn ...

The caste census must be viewed beyond binaries of “for or against” to envision a more transformative idea — as a foundational tool for what might be called a social management approach to ...

The latest addition to the “caste train” is State Senator Aisha Wahab, who introduced a caste bill in the state of California.

New Delhi: Delhi University has asked the applicants under the reserved categories to disclose their sub-caste details during registration on its Comm.

Aristotle praised the political organization of ant colonies while ancient Chinese Daoists appreciated ants as illustrative symbols showing how ephemeral human ambitions and power are. Throughout ...

Lucknow: The proposed caste enumeration exercise scheduled alongside the national Census in 2027 is set to become the centrepiece of an elaborate grou.