1—A piece I wrote for @BBC_Future, on how discoveries about social insects transformed assumptions regarding humanity's position in nature and time, and why this remains important today.

bbc.com/future/article… 2—Early 1900s, scientists realise just how complex insect societies can be. But they also discover how ancient they are. Ants were social millions of years before humans evolved.
This transformed people's sense of humanity's own position in time, and how much might be left ahead.