Leafcutter Ants - the First Agriculture
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Uploaded by hudson on Feb 26, 2006
The amazing story of the Leafcutter Ants - a species of insect that has been employing the technologies of agriculture and antibiotics for approximately 50 million years. Long before man had even figured out how to bang a rock.
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ANT-ibiotics ha ha ha
1 year ago 5
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@dementedenyz I was just wondering the same thing!
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@hnnnggh OK, then explain to me how evolution explains the ants bringing the antibiotic down into farmed material.
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@niverent The theory of evolution (and related theories) cover this perfectly well. It doesn't tell us the specifics of how something like this comes together, but it explains the general mechanism. You aren't smart enough to figure it out, so you've invented an explanation you find satisfying.
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Is this Liam Neeson? :)
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must know more
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god i cant stand liam neeson's mid - atlantic stupid accent.
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is this Fricking LIAM NEESON? shouldnt he be saving his family or leading his son through the wasteland???? Well he makes watching Ant videos so much cooler
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Is this Liam Neeson?
5 months ago 3
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@eshed888 Another way I could put my position is this: humans aren't smart enough to figure out what is going on, things are ultimately mysterious if one is honest. But many are uncomfortable with uncertainty so they invent explanations that they find satisfying.
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@eshed888 Well, what it boils down to is that I don't believe ants just started farming by chance. That to me is kind of like saying that just by chance mutation an insect just by chance decided not to eat its food. I just don't buy it. I think creationism is simplistic bullshit, and explanations based purely on evolution are slightly less simplistic bullshit.
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Michigan Biology sent me here!!
Timbutzz 1 year ago 47
@Timbutzz cool!
hudson 1 year ago
It from PBS's fantastic 7-part series, Evolution. You can find more details on the PBS site.
hudson 3 years ago