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Is an Ant colony a democracy or a police state? Can human society learn from it?

April 26, 2017animals Ant ants Biology colony democracy insects police Wildlife

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Is an Ant colony a democracy or a police state? Can human society learn from it?

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An ant colony is more like an organism than a political organization. Its members interact deterministically just as the cells in your body do. It is hard to imagine humans interacting in this way except in some sci-fi cyberorg fantasy.