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Infectious Selflessness: How an Ant Colony Becomes a Social Immune System
August 16, 2026
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Infectious Selflessness: How an Ant Colony Becomes a Social Immune System
In the 2011 blockbuster thriller Contagion, a virus infects and kills 26 million people around the world. But even those who evade the virus are infected with something else: crippling fear.