WHAT EVOLUTION IS i6i 



cells and hatch queens with as much 

 skill as the best. Their operations are 

 largely instinctive. Such perform- 

 ances are not taught, though bees like 

 most animals of their grade can learn. 

 Thus, man, though an animal, is 

 preeminent in a multitude of ways as 

 compared with his neighbors. He has 

 the most intricate and complicated 

 form of social life of which we have 

 any knowledge. He controls his en- 

 vironment, devises and uses tools, and 

 acquiresproperty as no other organism 

 has ever done. He has developed a 

 most complex spoken and written lan- 

 guage which serves him for com- 

 munication and record, and he teaches 

 as well as learns. No wonder with all 

 these exceptional traits that he ap- 

 pears so strikingly unlike other ani- 

 mals. It is therefore to be expected 

 that his evolutionary relations will be 

 far from usual. 



