Hold up humans! Ants figured out medicine, farming and engineering way before us
Ants – creatures with tiny brains and no capacity for speech – routinely pull off feats that rival, and sometimes exceed, our own
Think back to a time you helped someone move a heavy object, such as a couch. While at first the task may have appeared simple, it actually required a suite of advanced behaviours.
The job needed verbal commands for social coordination (“pivot!”) and anticipation of near-future events (moving other furniture out of the way). It also required a clear, shared vision of the final goal (which room to take the couch to).
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