http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/stories/person/1806 Stories and external links referencing a person (RSS) en http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/animal-vegetable-mineral/articles/how-ant-and-human-societies-might-grow <!--paging_filter--><p>Pellegrino University Professor Emeritus Edward O. Wilson remains fascinated with the highly organized societies of ants, bees, wasps, termites, and humans. He and Bert Holldobler, with whom he shared a Pulitzer Prize for their book "The Ants," have published a paper about how such societies originate, which appears in the Sept. 20, 2005 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The original colonies of humans, like those of ants and termites, they propose, could have arisen in much the same way. <p>Both ants and humans have achieved "spectacular ecological success," they write. For humans, this includes winning out over competing forms of humanlike creatures who evolved from apelike ancestors.</p> <p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/animal-vegetable-mineral/articles/how-ant-and-human-societies-might-grow">read more</a></p> Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:22:31 -0400 70652986 3703 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu