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" Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years. "
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" It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships. "
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" What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species. "
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" We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become. "
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" I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it. "
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" Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers. "
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" An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat. "
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" Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength. "
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