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Since ant colonies are all established by queens breeding with drones that are their siblings from the same queen (unless I'm mistaken) wouldn't that mean all ants are inbred? What prevents this inbreeding from causing serious problems in social insects like ants, bees, termites, etc?

by /u/Berkamin in /r/askscience

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