2017/10/06 11:03
I didn't know about Fire Ants or Hiari, except it's name. But I just thought that it should have poison, guessing from that name. Because the name Fire remind us a specific image that is something very painful like barnnig.
But, later I found out that I am misunderstanding about its name. It was named after its colour.
And another thing I knew is that it is not Japan origin. Namely It is a
alien species.
I was qurious in this tiny insect as always, so I googled it. And I found many many intersting things. Amasingly, It possibly kill people. The venom causing pain, and sometimes kill people by anaphyilaxy shock of alkaroids of which contain in the venom.
By the way, do you know the name of W D Hamilton? He was an English evolutionally biologist. And his significant work in his field was relating to our todays topic; ants.
And his discovery reminds me one of Aesop's Fables. It is a story..., I don't know the title, but it about foots and stomach's quarrel.
One day, foots dispute with stomach. He said you are so lazy, while I walkig for serch any foods, you are just sleeping.
And after such quarrel, foots stop to walking. One hour past, and two hours, three hours, and two days past.
And foots finally noticed that his allegation to stomach is compleatly wrong. Because, mot only stomach, but foots themselves are getting weak and weak.
Let the Fable aside, Hamilton’s great discovery is that since Darwin’s historical book; The origin of seed, there is one problem of which yet no one can solve. It was why bees and ants are acting like altruistic behavior. as you know, there is so called worker bees and soldier bees, and they are working for their queen. their allegiance for their queen is thinking higher than of humans.
In a Christianity world, sacrifice is a most valuable virtue, so it is not strange that their behavior is something relating to god.
But, Hamilton solved this problem logically. He reveals that their behavior is not altruistic but egocentric. Because they have same gene as their queen have.
This mean is, as I mentioned before, as same as Aesop’s foots and stomach.
We have many organs. Lever, Kidney, lungs, heart, brain, skin, and of cause foots and stomach. These organs are deriving from same one cell.
Hamilton discovered that one ant or one bee are seeming one individual, but it is not true, like our internal organs or skin, hair, they are just one organ.
