Quote: A bee doubtless would...

Researching yesterday's post, I found this beautiful and (unintentionally?) funny quote searching for references to bees and wasps in Darwin's writing.

All animals of same species are bound together just like buds of plants, which die at one time, though produced either sooner or later. <...> It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another. — We consider those, when the intellectual faculties/cerebral structure most developed, as highest. — A bee doubtless would when the instincts were —

- Charles Darwin, "Notebook B" pages 73 and 74.

It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another. A bee would consider itself highest in many other respects.

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