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Tweet This image released by Marvel Studios shows a scene from "Ant-Man and the Wasp." (Disney/Marvel Studios via AP) If science was once impervious to culture, those days are surely long gone. Also no longer with us: the concept of binary sex. Just a few years ago, the term “gender” began substituting for “sex” in common usage; from there, the word took on meaning as a form of identity. At the time, we were told gender was a social construct. The latest instruction, however, confirms...

It was decided on by a pair of scientists and rock star Michael Stipe.

The ant came in a small vial of ethanol, sealed in a plastic bag, and packed in a small cardboard box. It was addressed to Yale’s Douglas B. Booher. German entomologist Phillip Hoenle had discovered the ant, which he noted had some peculiar features, in a rain forest in Ecuador. Now he wanted Booher, a research associate in the Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change and the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, to confirm whether this trap ant was truly a new species. If so, H...

Yale University The ant came in a small vial of ethanol, sealed in a plastic bag, and packed in a small cardboard box. It was addressed to Yale’s Douglas B. Booher. German entomologist Phillip Hoenle had discovered the ant, which he noted had some peculiar features, in a rain forest in Ecuador. Now he wanted Booher, a research associate in the Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change and the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, to confirm whether this trap ant was truly a new s...

By Bill Hathaway May 5, 2021 Share this with FacebookShare this with TwitterShare this with LinkedInShare this with EmailPrint this The new species of ant, discovered in an Ecuadorian rain forest, is notable for its smooth and shining cuticles and large trap jaw mandibles. (Phil Hoenle) The ant came in a small vial of ethanol, sealed in a plastic bag, and packed in a small cardboard box. It was addressed to Yale’s Douglas B. Booher. German entomologist Phillip Hoenle had discovered the ant, w...