You think it’d be impossible to share your house with your wife, your daughter, and fifty million or so Argentine ants. And you would be correct.<\/p>\n
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There are billions of humans on earth, and trillions upon trillions of ants \u2014 an estimated 1.6 million for every human being. If the earth were a scale, and all the humans were placed on one side and all the ants on the other, it would not budge. Ants have answered the ever-expanding human biomass with an ever-expanding biomass of their own, so that the planet is poised, teetering between its two most successful civilizations \u2014 each of which is social, aggressive, expansionist, and well suited for war.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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