Wilson, Edward O.
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“In general, the most abundant social insects are the evolutionarily more advanced groups of ants and termites, in other words, those with the highest percentage of derived traits in anatomy and physiology as well as the more populous and complexly organized societies. What is the real origin of this competitive advantage in the environment as a whole? At the risk of oversimplification, it can be said that entomologists have come to recognize three qualities as being most important...””
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