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Ants develop like us? Come on Alex, you're not the sort of bloke who doesn't pay attention to the world around you.
Ants are the virtual masters of their own world. They harvest almost everything around them for food; they exploit their environment in imaginative ways; they wage virtual war on anything that crosses their path regardless of species type; they have developed societies that are both complex and brutally efficient; they are unhampered by superfluous emotion or morality.
The main differences between ants and humans are that they are smaller than us and far more efficient at what they do.
If we ever encounter aliens with similar qualities, the human race will very quickly become extinct.
For ants to develop like us would involve a backward evolutionary step for the ants.
"Go to the ants, thou sluggard. Learn of their ways and be wise."
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