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from the ant-tea-party dept. "Humans are social animals, but does our social organization result from our genetic makeup or does it come from something much more fundamental," asks this ASU press release. From Arizona State University biologist Jennifer Fewell's point of view, complex social structures may arise from the inherent nature of group interactions. “We look at human groups and we think we have these elaborate systems of interaction because we are elaborate beings, but when you look at an ant, you know that it is not an elaborate being,” she said. “, When you see how elaborate their societies are, you realize that there is another answer to the question of how these arise. And if there’s another answer for them, there might be another answer for us too.”
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