our little cousins may join us someday...

Maybe its screamingly obvious, or maybe its too down-beat - but it must be pretty unlikely that chimps, or for that matter, humans, are going to make it through the next thousand years, let alone the tens or hundreds of thousands required to observe this kind of social or cultural shift?

a quick 5 minutes ... sigh.

Thank you for the correction. You have probably guessed that I am not an antomologist. The interesting point, I think, is that if you try to use agriculture, animal husbandry, and social structure as measures of a species intellectual development, homo sapiens will rank right up there with the social insects. It would be getting us to far off topic to show the evidence that insects even beat us to genetically modified crops.

This is a fine example of a sentence that pretty much proves itself true.The study of insects = Entomology
The study of ants = Myrmecology

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