>Invented farming
>Invented slavery
>Invented warfare
>Invented complex hive structure
>All done millions of years ago while humans were just apes throwing poop at each other
Are ants the smartest beings in existence? And if so why did they stop advancing and get overtaken by ape people? were they too small to domesticate animals?
Invented farming
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Henry Martin
Ants are the next step in evolution, organisms started out with single cells, then became multicelled, and will soon become multianimal
Oliver Hall
ants arnt flying round in space
Camden Peterson
>invented farming
Just did some research on that. That's pretty impressive. Do the ants do it intentionally knowing it's going to provide them food or are they just following pheromones.
William Collins
My favorite history tv show told me otherwise. Checkmate.
Adrian Reed
1) invented warfare ? Explanation needed.
2) Who said progress is a good thing ? We are burning our ressources without thinking about tomorrow (by a few decades, farming will be impossible due to sterilisation), whereas ants only build enough to survive. I think the animals (and ancient greeks) are smarter than us because they conceive a society without progress.
Henry Hall
Individual ants aren't comparable to humans, the "unit" of antdom is the hive.
Chase Taylor
>2) Who said progress is a good thing ?
He asked, on the internet, as he stuffed his face with cheap, abundant food.
Charles Garcia
Some ants colony usually deploy some kinds of advanced warfare when they fight another colony: scouting, ambushes, slaves raids
Robert Adams
theyre not actually smart though its not intelligence that allows for such intricate organization but the lack thereof.
This of course assumes a human-centric intelligence, which many would argue isnt necessarily fair since there are other ways to do things "intelligently" even if you dont think about it like a human does. Dolphins and octopus are creative like us to an extent, but lack a cerebral cortex to actually reason and understand themselves apart from the universe. Cats are curious like us, but not in a productive way but rather as entertainment so they dont take steps forward in that regard like us.
Ants cant reason why they do things, theyre barely more than a plant or the leaves they eat when it comes to actual intelligence, their DNA is just really good at reproducing, like a virus or bacteria.
Its likely early humans learned a lot from ants, maybe they stole some of these ideas from them even, but humans can actually contemplate what theyre doing which is how we define intelligencem