Termite species sends its elderly on suicide missions

Saturday, August 4, 2012 - 00:30 in Psychology & Sociology

As enemies close in, selfless individuals with 'explosive backpacks' sacrifice themselves to seal tunnels and create a deadly weapon.Esteemed biologist E.O. Wilson famously observed that "a principle difference between human beings and ants is that whereas we send our young men to war, they send their old ladies."

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