Do organisms form towns and cities or other settlements and economies in any way analagous to humans?
Do organisms form towns and cities or other settlements and economies in any way analagous to humans?
I believe ants and honey bees have genetically-coded and baked-in specializations like worker and queen bees
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A number of insects, like ants, bees and termites, create the equivalent of settlements (mounds and hives) and have structured societies, so to speak. Some termite mounds are very big, so maybe you could call it a city.
Whether what they have could be analogous to our economy is debatable, since they all work to feed their respective collectives and never engage in any form of trade with different communities, though they may fight
Prairie Dogs do
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