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. WILSONIt’s always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That’s just in human relationships.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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Willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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It’s always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That’s just in human relationships.
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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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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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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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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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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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