Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Ants and agriculture (from Richard Dawkins' "The Ancestor's tale"))


Ants independently invented the town. Their nests are complicated with enormous populations. They also engage in agriculture and crop fungi to stip the formation of spore-bearing bodies. The fungi themselves are dependent on the ants for their propagation. They have apparently evolved to flourish only in the domesticated environment of an ants' net which makes it a true example of domesticaion by an agricultural species other than our own.

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