If the transfer of power in ant society from the worker ant to the queen ant is still based on the outstanding status of the queen itself, it is an extremely long spontaneous act of going with the flow.

Then the male ant has seized the supreme power of ant society, which is the last few thousand years. And some of the means are not even glamorous.

When the queen ants gain the trust of the worker ants with their superior intelligence and take the supreme power, they will soon discover their shortcomings - their lack of intelligence.

It's not a joke. Yes, although the queen has a high level of intelligence, it is still not good enough to handle everything in the entire nest as perfectly as a computer.

Worker ants are basically acting on instinct when they make collective decisions, and if they make a mistake in collective decision-making, they don't care, or they can't predict the consequences.

But queens are different, they are intelligent, and they instinctively seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. But how do you do the best and avoid the disadvantages? It's not that their little minds can see the development trend and law after the decision.

At this time, the disadvantage of the queen ant being alone is reflected, they don't even have anyone to negotiate, even in a nest with many queens, it is difficult for a few queens to have enough energy to take care of the dual tasks of reproduction and decision-making.

At this point, the queen needs someone to help take her decision-making shoulders.

On the one hand, the queen naturally returns some of the underlying decision-making power to the worker ants, and allows the worker ants to implement it based on their own genetic judgments when they encounter some simple problems. For example, spontaneous search for food, etc.

On the other hand, in the decision-making of major matters, the queen ant is also slowly looking for an assistant. At this time, a special group of ants in the colony entered the queen's sight.

They don't give birth, so they have a lot of time to help the queen make decisions; They are well supplied by the nest and are well nourished, so their level of intelligence is not inferior to that of the queen; They are more numerous, which can effectively make up for the disadvantage of the queen ant in terms of numbers and form collective intelligence.

This is the male ant class.

Thus, with the acquiescence of the queen ant, the male ant class began to come into contact with power for the first time, and power is poison for any animal.

For the sake of power, people can cut their relatives, and for the sake of power, lions and wolves will go on a killing spree and cut down the roots in order to compete for the position of king.

After the males have tasted the poison of power, they will not give up easily.

On the one hand, after taking power, the males no longer live in the nest in fear, and there is no fear that the nominally "sister" worker ants will expel them to death when they are short of food.

At this time, the wisdom of the male ants is already an important resource for the entire nest, which naturally cannot be easily wasted, and their life safety has been more guaranteed.

Even after a long evolution, the males were allowed to return to their nests after the wedding flight and continue to perform the role of a think tank. At this time, the male ants completely got rid of the single role of reproduction and officially entered the decision-making level.

On the other hand, as the males came into contact with power, they began to overwhelm the queen by virtue of their numerical superiority, and gradually monopolized the supreme power, and they had a higher status and a more abundant supply of resources.

It is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift. Once vital interests are involved, males will no longer easily give up their existing status and resources.

The males began to gradually exclude the queen from the decision-making circle, so that the queen was completely reduced to a fertility machine with a high status, sufficient supply but no real power, just like the status of the male ants in the first place.

At the level of power, the process of male ants gradually replacing the queen ant is not achieved overnight! Rather, it lasted for thousands of years, tens of thousands of years, and even began this process from the very beginning of the matriarchal society of ants.

As the only male class in the ant world, the rise of male ants at the level of power also symbolizes the transformation of ant society from matrilineal clans to patrilineal clans.

The big-headed ant kingdom and the paving ant barbarian kingdom are the most advanced races in this regard, and in some groups, this process is far from over, and some have even just begun.

Let's go back and look at how human society transitioned from matrilineal to patrilineal clans.

Between 5,500 and 4,000 years ago, the matrilineal clan society in China was replaced by the patrilineal clan society, and ancient humans entered the patrilineal clan society. Even if various women's equality movements are in full swing today, they cannot change the reality of male supremacy for the time being.

Patrilineal clan society is a new socio-cultural system and one of the most profound changes in human history. This change was in keeping with the development of the productive forces at that time.

As a result of the further development of agriculture and handicrafts, the position and role of men in production has become more and more important, and the center of society has naturally shifted.

Men gradually dominated the main branches of production, such as agriculture, animal husbandry and handicrafts, and the matriarchal system naturally transitioned to patriarchy, and patrilineal clan communes were gradually formed. Since then, the patriarchal-centered individual family has become a force against the clan, and the primitive society has gradually tended to disintegrate. Men relied on their economic superiority to occupy a dominant position in social production and life.

In a patrilineal clan society, men's property rights and social status are higher than women's, and the family marriage relationship has also changed from "living with the wife" to "living with the husband" in the matrilineal clan society, and the children naturally no longer belong to the matrilineal clan but become members of the patrilineal clan and become the inheritors of the father's property.

In the patrilineal clan society, with the development of social productive forces and the surplus of the fruits of labor, some people are able to take possession of the fruits of others' labor and use the wealth of labor they have possessed to serve others, so that the phenomenon of wealth and poverty appears, and private property begins to sprout. The change in the disparity between the rich and the poor was the basis for the emergence of classes, and in the later period of the patrilineal clan society, the clan society began to disintegrate, and the class society began to appear.

It can be seen that the transformation of human society from matrilineal clans to patrilineal clans is motivated and caused by the development and demand of productive forces, more simply the ability to obtain food. In this regard, with the agricultural revolution, more powerful men were more dominant.

The ant society is similar, because the ants themselves have a strong ability to obtain food, so compared to strength, intelligence is more valued by ants, and only with a smart decision-making level, the weak ant community can survive the fight against predators, other ant communities, and nature.

As a result, the queen ant, who is individually more intelligent, takes over the authority from the worker ants and is then replaced by males with a similar level of intelligence but a greater number of them.