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Long ago, I wrote a manuscript entitled “Coordination Without Command: The Economics of Insect Societies”. If it had been published, it would have been the first book in sociobiology. The problem that has made sociobiology a controversial subject is the tendency of O. E. Wilson and his friends to draw lessons for humans from animal societies. I did not think that we should copy the ants and termites and I made a little restrained fun of an ant specialist who had talked in these terms. Perhaps I could have set sociobiology off on a better start, even though Wilson knows immensely more about insect societies than I do.
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Tullock, G. (1992). Termites. In: Economic Hierarchies, Organization and the Structure of Production. Studies in Public Choice, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2948-0_7
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