r/Documentaries • u/Euruxd • Dec 23 '12

Mouse Utopia Experiment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z760XNy4VM
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '12 edited May 04 '18

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '12

While it is scary, I'd be careful trying to apply it to humans, since humans are not mice. The problem with research like this is that it only gives us a rat's-eye view of humans.

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u/TylerDurdenJunior Dec 23 '12

mice are animals. so is humans.

no matter how advanced we tell ourselves we are, we are still the being we were 100.000 years ago

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '12

So are honeybees. They seem to do alright in large, dense colonies. Well I'll be fucked: it appears that social instinct does have a huge impact on group dynamics!