An individual insect in an ant or bee colony that has the physical form of a worker but may have reproductive capacity.
From 'ergates' (worker) and Greek 'morphe' (form, shape), this term names individuals with contradictory characteristics—worker body, reproductive ability.
Ergatomorphs are evolution's wild cards—insects built like workers but with the reproductive hardware of queens, showing that nature's engineering tolerates some pretty interesting design conflicts.
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