The number of people on Earth is rapidly increasing, and under these conditions we begin to self-organize like ant colonies, experts who published a report in the journal Behavioral Ecology are sure.
Both humans and ants can live in societies of more than a million members, says study author Mark Mofett. But for chimpanzees, the maximum is 100 members. Moreover, unlike humans and ants, monkeys do not have to cope with problems with public health, infrastructure, distribution of goods and services, market economy, group work, animal domestication, war and slavery.
“The ants have been able to develop behaviors that meet all of these objectives. By the way, only ants and humans have real military operations. The life of ants is largely due to the influence of the pheromones emitted. People emit these compounds too, but a person can make connections in other ways,”comments Mark Mofett.
As Discovery News points out, having a large community membership makes this membership essentially anonymous. In such conditions, society is able to expand as long as the environment allows.
True, the following distinguishes humans from ants: ants never interbreed within a species. This would require waging constant wars on the borders of rival supercolonies. Each colony develops as a separate species. In general, according to experts, humans have much more in common with ants than with primates.
