Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.

In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.

Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.

'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.