Chimps, along with most animals, don’t tolerate strangers in their society. Our species shares the ability to build large, anonymous societies with another species, and it’s not even vertebrate.
Click above to listen to Part 3 of Let’s Stick Together, featuring Mark Moffett, Tropical biologist, Smithsonian Institution researcher, and author of “The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive and Fall,” explaining how ants ant societies resemble human societies.
Let’s Stick Together:
Part 1: Adam Rutherford / Human Paradox
Part 2: Patricia Churchland / Social Bonding
Part 3: Mark Moffett / Human An(t)alogs
