Besides the many other interesting things about them, an interesting fact about honeybees is that they belong to the only bee species to possess barbed
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The Protective Balance Provided by Microbes
In another essay, I introduced the concept of the Law of Balance, the idea that, in the macroscopic world of predators and prey, there exists
The Biological Function of War: To Save Every Human Child
The members of social species such as ants, bees, wasps, termites, humans, wolves, and baboons, which either coordinate their actions or have specialized members like
A Possible Reason for the Pine Beetle Infestation
In certain parts of western North America, vast areas of pine forests have been systematically devastated by the mountain pine beetle. This tiny insect, measuring
The Law of Balance and the Grave Dangers of Imbalance
Contrary to what Darwin believed, it is not competition, or the struggle for life, which was later rephrased by Herbert Spencer as the “survival of
The Tyrant King
In the history of our immensely fertile planet, which has been a veritable oasis in the cosmic desert of the Universe, there has arisen an
