In 1994 he published the book” The Way to the ants’ American entomologist Edward Wilson and German biologist Bert Helldoblera.
In his book, they argued that if the weigh of all living The world of ants, their weight will be equal to the total weight of all living people in the world.
«If we assume that the ants are only 1% of the total number of insects, their population is 10 thousand trillion individuals – Wilson wrote and Helldobler. – The average weight of the worker ant, depending on the species, is 1-5 mg. If you add them all together, it turns out that all the ants of the world weigh about as much as all of humanity ».
This calculation is based on the idea that the average person’s weight is about 62 kg, which means that the average ant must weigh 62 mg.
But entomologist Francis Ratnieks of Sussex University said that ants weighing about 60 mg occur, but very rarely. Normal ant has a weight of about 1-2 mg.
In fact, no one knows how many ants now living on planet Earth. Currently, the world population of about 7.2 billion people. And if we take into calculation only people over 15, their total weight will be 332 mlrd.kg. And if you agree with the version that the world is 10 thousand trillion ants and each weighs an average of 4 mg, their total weight will be only $ 40 billion. Kg.
It turns out that the calculations of Wilson and Helldoblera inaccurate.
But Professor Rantnieks believes that only 2 thousand years ago, ants overtaken by weight of humanity, but about the end of XVIII century, mankind began to grow rapidly and surpassed by weight of ants.
It should also be recalled that mankind has become not only more, but also thicker. So the people left behind ants in all respects.
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