> Allen, as far as epigenetic influence of cell size, it would appear to me 
> that only the reproductives would have a chance of being affected.  I 
> wouldn't think that the cell size of drones and queens would be affected 
> by the size of the worker foundation, and thus there would not likely be 
> any heritable epigenetic effect.

That is what I have always thought, but there are persistent reports to the 
contrary, so I think a simple and inexpensive experiment could be done to 
compare real world phenomena (or absence thereof) to our intellectual 
models.

That is how science works: real world experiments compare what we think to 
to what actually is, and we often get surprises. Talk is just talk.  Thought 
is just thought.  Action is action.  What is, is. 

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