Ants More Rational than Humans

Friday, July 24, 2009 - 13:56 in Biology & Nature

In a study released online on July 22 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences, researchers at Arizona State University and Princeton University show that ants can accomplish a task more rationally than our - multimodal, egg-headed, tool-using, bipedal, opposing-thumbed - selves. This is not the case of humans being "stupider" than ants.

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