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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Making slaves, as an ant.

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  • Moreover, if we are going to admit subjective considerations, there is a fascination in the bleak logic that pervades all of life, including wasps homing in on the nerve ganglia down the length of their prey, cuckoos ejecting their foster brothers ‘Thow mortherer of the heysugge on y braunche’, slave-making ants, and the single-minded – or rather zero-minded – indifference to suffering shown by all parasites and predators.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • Moreover, if we are going to admit subjective considerations, there is a fascination in the bleak logic that pervades all of life, including wasps homing in on the nerve ganglia down the length of their prey, cuckoos ejecting their foster brothers ‘Thow mortherer of the heysugge on y braunche’, slave-making ants, and the single-minded – or rather zero-minded – indifference to suffering shown by all parasites and predators.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

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