This is a diagram comparing the optical lobes in the brains of above and below-ground genera of army ants. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases ...

Unlike the egg-headed, opposing-thumbed humans, ants don’t enjoy solitude. Ants are highly social animals who cannot survive without their community. When an ant gets lonely, it loses its vigor.

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or the construction of ant megacities. And in our own brains, the ‘big’ mysteries: how does the mind emerge from the physical brain? What is self-awareness? And, even, what is consciousness?

Experience-expectant brain plasticity corresponds to caste-specific abiotic ... Species differ in worker body size effects on critical thermal limits in seed-harvesting desert ants (Messor ebeninus ...