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They also choose mates with "compatible" blood types and their corporations assemble work teams based on blood type.
If a queen mates with a male of her own strain, her offspring will be queens, and if she mates with a male from the other strain, the sperm will give rise to workers.
According to femaleism, ancient women hunted along with their male mates, the clitoris is anatomically superior to the penis, and menstruation is an expression of "primal female power."
It's as if a female mates with one male to produce her offspring's somatic cells, and another to produce its germ cells.
We like to avoid risk; we care about the qualities of our mates; we want our children to be happy.