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  • An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.

    "Ants and Answers: A Conversation with E. O. Wilson". Interview with Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. January 15, 2010.