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May 13th, 2003

On the march 

Bert Holldobler and EO Wilson’s epic The Ants first made me look at the remarkable small creatures in a different way (if you have a copy of Bug’s Life but not The Ants, remedy that immediately). Now Cornell entomologist Sean Brady seems to have established that army ants had a single evolutionary origin and have literally marched around the world.