In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.

Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.

Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.

All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments.

Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.