Humans vs. Ants

Everything people do, ants can do better.

Photo by Parvana Praveen on Unsplash

Are we the only intelligent life on earth?

Humans spend a lot of time congratulating ourselves for our unique and unmatched intelligence.

That’s obviously a lie.

If you’ve ever interacted with humans (especially en masse), you probably have an endless list of examples that demonstrate human intelligence is…

…possibly a myth.

We’re not as special as we like to think we are.

Yet the story we tell about our superiority to all other life persists.

It’s possible (perhaps likely) that the reason we’ve not had contact with aliens yet is because they’re talking to other intelligent life.

We’re too arrogant and dumb.

Virtually everything that humans do, ants do better.

Not only do ants outnumber us by population and overall biomass, they share a number of qualities that previously we thought were unique to humans.

• Ants Farm and Keep Livestock — Without altering the climate
• They Appear to Take Vacations — Superior work/life balance