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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

E.O. Wilson's plan to save the world

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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The Most Primitive Ant in the World?

Meten: I would say that y favorite is the most primitive ant in the world. The one that's most likely an ancestral wasp, known only from australia. And i've made a couple of trips to australia, trying to find it in the wild so i could see what a proto ant is like. But i never succeeded. He says colonies were discovered and set up in the laboratory; social behavior followed closely.

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