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IF YOU’VE EVER SPENT MUCH TIMEwatching a colony of ants,you’d think they were themost selfless beings in the animaI kingdom.Butmyrmecologists,the scientists who study ants,aren’tso naive.How,they’ve long asked,could such anapparently selfless creature have survived the game ofevolution,in which only the flttest flourish?Ants maybe pugnacious toward those from other colonies,butwithin a single colony scientists have observed littlesign of brutishness or double-crossing-the kind of thingyou’d find in a typical human household.All they’veseen is abject cooperation.
IF YOU’VE EVER SPENT MUCH TIMEwatching a colony of ants,you’d think they were themost selfless beings in the animaI kingdom.Butmyrmecologists,the scientists who study ants,aren’tso naive.How,they’ve long asked,could such Anapparently selfless creature have survived the game ofevolution, in which only the flttest flourish?Ants maybe pugnacious to those from other colonies, butwithin a single colony scientists have viewed littlesign of brutishness or double-crossing-the kind of thingyou’d find in a typical Human household.All they’veseen is abject cooperation.