Description: Selling is a 1912 magazine article about: Ants Title: NOTES ABOUT ANTS AND THEIR RESEMBLANCE TO MAN Author: WILLIAM MORTON WHEELER, PH. D. PROFESSOR OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY Quoting the first page “It is sometimes profitable to turn away from the consideration of the social and economic problems, which so constantly beset us, to a study of the social insects and their methods of solving the problems which they, too, have had to face during their long and strenuous evolution. Though in most respects man and the insect differ enormously, both nevertheless display some remarkable convergent similarities. They are the only two successful and dominant animal types of the present age, and, so far as they are social, not only have had to encounter the same obstacles, but have learned to over- come many of them in the same manner. The social insects, however, have been more successful than man in organizing stable communities, because they have frankly trusted and followed their instincts and have therefore carried their social organization to its logical, or perhaps we had better say instinctive, conclusion, whereas man's intellectual processes and the ideals and dissentions to which they give birth forever prevent a definitive solution of economic problems and keep him in a state of active and ceaseless evolution. We naturally find, therefore, that the stable and well-regulated insect societies, which have "neither guide, overseer, nor ruler," have always aroused the admiration of those who long for a rigid communistic control of human society, while the individualist turns away from them with a feeling akin to horror. It is well known that three great problems must be solved by every organism that would survive in the struggle for existence; first, how to obtain a sufficient quantity of the right kind of food; second, how to reproduce its kind and bring up its offspring, and, third, how to protect itself and its offspring from the injurious effects of both the lifeless and the living environment. And although all animals are constantly impelled to the solution of these problems by the primal instincts of hunger, love, and fear, the solution is often extremely difficult. And it is especially difficult in the social and colonial animals, because these must …" 7” x 10”, 36 pages, 35 B&W illustrations These are pages from an actual 1912 magazine. No reprints or copies. 12H1 Please note the flat-rate shipping for my magazine articles. Please see my other auctions and store items for more old articles, advertising pages and non-fiction books. Click Here To Visit My eBay Store: busybeas books and ads Thousands of advertisement pages and old articles Anything I find that looks interesting! Please see my other auctions for more goodies, books and magazines. I’ll combine wins to save on postage. Thanks For Looking! Luke 12: 15
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