>>722976507
>evolution select for this if the ant form is not directly involved in sex
Not really evolution this is creative breeding.
Its very interesting if you do a little general knowledge research into how and variants are made.
The tl:dr of it is that there are workers, which are all women, and drones which are all men and the workers choose what ants the colony needs and feeds the larvae appropriately to get them to mutate into what they need, including a queen, so if a colonies queen is killed the workers can make another.
Its all about how much royal jelly they are fed and for how long they are fed it.
Again, very interesting to learn about.