Adventures Among Ants by Mark W. Moffett

He has received many awards for his work, including the Lowell Thomas Medal for exploration. Moffett is an American tropical biologist, specialized in the ecology of tropical forest canopies and the social behavior of ants.Ĭalled “daring eco-adventurer” by none other than Margaret Atwood, Moffett is a research associate at the Smithsonian and a visiting scholar in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University.

Moffett’s magnum opus if you want to find out more about how human societies work and what makes them work. “This fine work,” says a starred review in The Publishers Weekly, “should have broad appeal to anyone curious about human societies, which is basically everyone.”Īnd really, there aren’t many books better-or more wide-ranging-than Mark W. If you’ve read and liked any of these five books, then you’re sure to like The Human Swarm as well. Who Should Read “The Human Swarm”? And Why?Īs Michael Shermer, the author of The Moral Arc and the publisher of the Skeptic magazine has noted, The Human Swarm is yet another addition to the Canon of Big History studies, joining classics such as Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel, Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens, and Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature. The title of his book says pretty much everything: Moffett is your guy for questions such as this. Tropical biologist and ant expert Mark W. Wonder what ants and sperm whales can teach you about the future of the United States? How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall

Adventures Among Ants by Mark W. Moffett