![]() He smiles gently as he eases into a chair, his voice a rich, Southern drawl, even though he left Alabama for Harvard over 45 years ago. ![]() A few workers are marching up the arms of his linen jacket and across his shoulders. In his brightly lit laboratory behind the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, he stands over a plastic tray of pheidole rhea, remarkable for having two soldier castes. Now 71, Wilson is a tall, slender man, his upper spine crooked from years of looking earthwards. And humanity would disappear from the face of the earth without them. ![]() True, they haven’t written any operas, but they do live in colonies of elegant social complexity. There are thousands of different species of ant, no one is sure since most of them are unknown to science, and perhaps a hundred million billion of the creatures alive at any one time. ![]()
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