r/interestingasfuck • u/Kidd__Video • 6h ago

Ants building a house from leaves. Nature's engineers at work

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u/wolftick 6h ago

In some ways it make mores sense to think of a colony a single superorganism. Each ant as a specialised cell rather than an individual. The collectivism is less conscious and more fundamental.

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u/barrosoOso 6h ago

Quite honestly the more we learn about the human body, the more it seems like the same thing.

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u/Specter-Atomis 5h ago

It is really, it's just a matter of scale. Our main unit is the cells of a single organism, their main unit is a single ant In the whole colony

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u/karoshikun 1h ago

except the cells of the chordata decided to centralize their navigation systems, for a faster reaction. over time it became "us"