[ExI] Ants to spike

[Emlyn]

2009/10/20 spike <spike66 at att.net>:
> Like the ants, humans rely on the externalization of our collective wisdom.
> Only a tiny fraction of the body of human knowledge resides in our brains.
> The ants, bees, termites and humans are the four lifeforms which have most
> effectively evolved to externalize knowledge.  We humans have recently
> enjoyed a quantum leap in the effectiveness of our knowledge-externalization
> capacity with the advent of the internet.

Plus possibly naked mole rats as a distant fifth?

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