Of course, the second suggestion, of a continuous progression from amoeba to man, is problematic. Elegant though.
Do you think man came from ape?
And if so from what did ape come to your knowledge?
In terms of which species humans most act like (and this is well known) it’s actually drumroll ants !!!
Apes act less like ants than humans do, even though apes are genetically our closest relatives!
we don’t act at all like ants
well if bj campbell says so
We are too individualistic to be like ants who work together as a single collective to achieve a common goal
And other species like bees or wasps but we value our independence too much to be like these social insects
No one here actually read Origin of Species, eh?
I was waiting for someone to nuance my statements.
WHO HAS READ DARWIN?
Anyone read Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene? High quality work.
He argues that it is not the organism but the genes themselves which must be seen as the agent. So you have to look at individual survival and procreation and group survival at once, which changes the logics, and gives another way of looking at “fitness”.
So, the group is its own primary environment.
all ants in a colony are sterile female clones
the whole colony is one individual
I remember at your compound, taking a walk around it, studying this enormous ant trail, with very strong ants carrying whole flower petals by themselves. It was like 50 yards long at least. Beautiful.
i’ve read those two
among another thing or two
i published a microbiology paper once, too
if that helps
I doubt it will help. But good job.
I have read them both but I prefer the Dawkins because it is the more contemporary of the two
It is one of the truly seminal scientific books anyone remotely interested in science should read
saúva ants
atta subfam
they are beautiful, indeed
they’ll also wipe your crop clean in 24h
Read and learn:
animals.mom.me/ants-female-vs-male-7766.html
Ants unlike apes have division of labor, just like humans.
well I mean, to get to the point where you are able to put something you wrote in a credible scientific publication, surely you’ve studied a good deal of the foundational work on the subject
whatever
i hate it when creds start getting thrown around
y’all can just go ahead and assume that i’m an idiot and you’re better than me
to me it makes no difference
why dontcha keep googling until you get it right
hahaha alright I’ll do more than talk shit
in sum…
reading the mentioning of ants and dawkins in the same page is nice, since ants exemplify the idea of the selfish gene pretty well
an ant’s only purpose in life is to serve the colony because the colony is them
every single one of them is the exact same genetically
except for the males of course, but not because they are something else, but because they are a reduced version of them
they’re fertile, but they hatch from unfertilized eggs
they’re the genetic half of what a worker ant is
they’re referred to as “flying sperm” sometimes, because that’s all they do
they don’t even have jaws for eating
they hatch, fly out, mate, and die
it’s all controlled by the queen
she deliberately withholds sperm from a small fraction of the eggs she lays so that they remain unfertilized
since they are unfertilized, these eggs contain only her gene
so basically, you get to be fertile, but only because you’ll fly out and spread MY gene
anyway, that’s why I say we don’t act at all like ants
we’re not built the same
edit: double post
Alright phoneutria,
I’ll give you 1/2 of the debate.
Ants have division of labor. Apes don’t. Ants do farming, apes don’t, ants build cities, apes don’t etc…