<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nTo summarize, ants are related to all animals. According to science, all animals come from one ancestor. Even we humans are related to ants in terms of genetic material. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
That said, in terms of relatedness, ants are closer to hymenopterans. Specifically, they\u2019re most closely related to members of the suborder Apocrita. This includes bees and wasps. Members of this suborder all evolved from ancient wasps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ants are hymenopterans. They\u2019re closely related to other animals in the order like wasps and bees. Beyond the order, ants are related to all animals. Despite many differences, evidence suggests that all animals come from a common ancestor. In this article, we\u2019ll learn more about which animals are related to ants as we discuss the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3689,"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions\/3689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}