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Social complexity: Why modern humans are more like certain ants than chimpanzees

Mark Moffett uses comparisons between ant societies and human groups to examine identity, coordination and social organisation.

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Test what can be learned from a distant comparison without implying that ants and humans have the same cognitive mechanisms.

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