You said…… surely you don’t think ants have intelligence, I said yes animals are intelligent. No words were put in your mouth except your own.
There is no debate within the scientific community that there are multiple species in the human genus homo. Neanderthals for example is not another race, it’s another species in the same genus. Who said all hominids or their lines are human? Hominid simply means the great apes which includes gorillas, chimps and several others. Hominini is simply a clade below that which includes just homo and pan and pan is just closest cousins which are chimps and bonobos.
You say you know science, but the way you use word makes me think you don’t to be honest.
So again, another example of you not knowing what you’re talking about is hive mind versus individual minds. I have a feeling you have a science fiction concept of what hive mind means and not a scientific one. Plenty of hive minds are full of individual personalities, even in those where cloning is super common. Most of this research has been done on bees, but on ants too and they are all closely related as they come from the same
Order Hymenoptera.
Here is just one study on ants.
And yes, in certain what that says, if you’re even read it or are able too, is that ants have individual personalities.
One of the classes I was taking, actually several of the classes I was taking focused on habitat systems, specifically the coevolution of insects and angiosperms have this book at required reading. Used as a reference book. It drives deeply into some of this. Also…… I am from Alabama and I’ve been in discussions with the late EO Wilson…… know who that is? Even met him once by chance at a state park.
