Ants Are Cool but Teach Us Nothing

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Date of Publication: September 10, 2014

Year of Publication: 2014

Publisher: Bloomberg L.P.

Author(s): Edward O. Wilson

Edward O. Wilson considers human societies in relation to insect superorganisms.

“Another question I hear a lot is, ‘What can we learn of moral value from the ants?’ Here again I will answer definitively: nothing. Nothing at all can be learned from ants that our species should even consider imitating.”

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