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4.6 How much weight can a worker carry and why?

Up to 50 times their own weight! --Angelo Scott

Ants have proportionately more muscle (in terms of that cross-
sectional area) that they can use to lift heavy things.
Conversely, humans are proportionately more massive, and have
less muscle that can be applied to lifting heavy things. --Rob
Campbell (The MAD Scientist Network). More details here:
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/may99/927263695.Gb.r.html