Lord of The Ants follows in the footsteps of one of the great intellectual adventurers of our time, E.O. Wilson. It reveals his boyish enthusiasm as a naturalist and re-visits some of the places that have changed his view of the world. We even see him discover a new species of ant. While studying ants, Wilson struggled to comprehend the evolutionary forces that have led workers to forage and soldiers to fight - and became the architect of a new discipline: sociobiology. This synthesis of the origins of complex social behaviour linking ants to humans ultimately led him into controversy. Not since Charles Darwin wrote The Origin of Species has a set of ideas caused so much outrage; but even Darwin did not have a pitcher of water poured over him, or face angry demonstrators outside his lab.

Running Time: 58 mins

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