Ants are more like the parts of an animal than entities on their own. They are mobile cells, circulating through a dense connective tissue of other ants in a matrix of twigs. The circuits are so intimately interwoven that the anthill meets all the essential criteria of an organism.


"Antaeus in Manhattan" - The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (1974)

Lewis Thomas Quotes

Ants are more like the parts of an animal than entities on their own. They are mobile cells, circulating through a dense connective tissue of other...

Ants are more like the parts of an animal than entities on their own. They are mobile cells, circulating through a dense connective tissue of other...

Ants are more like the parts of an animal than entities on their own. They are mobile cells, circulating through a dense connective tissue of other...

Ants are more like the parts of an animal than entities on their own. They are mobile cells, circulating through a dense connective tissue of other...