The error of your premise is exposed by the fact that the common ancestor was not a monkey, modern or otherwise. I am almost as tired of this erroneous trope as I am of the one about “cavemen” coexisting with dinosaurs. Americans can be shockingly persistent in their willful ignorance.
I’m going to be annoyingly pedantic here: worker ants, like worker bees, are non-fertile females. if one must anthropomorphize, at least get the gender right. Not everything has to be male.
The error of your premise is exposed by the fact that the common ancestor was not a monkey, modern or otherwise. I am almost as tired of this erroneous trope as I am of the one about “cavemen” coexisting with dinosaurs. Americans can be shockingly persistent in their willful ignorance.