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Article: Old colonials. (ants) (Science and Technology)
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- March 24, 1990
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PICK a good story and just tell it," is the advice given to aspiring scientists by Dr Edward O. Wilson. He has certainly picked one of the best for himself. A lifetime's devotion to ants has made him the principal authority on the subject. Last week Harvard University Press published the first conspectus of myremecology since 1910, by Dr Wilson and Dr Bert Holldobler (a fellow Harvard professor).* Why, they ask, have ants been relatively neglected by other biologists?
Put all the world's land animals on a pair of scales and 10% of the weight would be ants. But it is their achievements, not their weight, which distinguishes them. Ants are the world's secret ...
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