Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they’ve had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
E. O. WILSONI had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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What’s been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being’s, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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I’m very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.
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In some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an
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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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