Animal species have evolved, over 400 million years, to self-medicate. In this clip, explore a case study of ants as doctors, surgeons: a species that has developed a fascinating ability to take something from its external environment, incorporate that with its own bodily feature, to self-medicate. As it turns out, ants aren't the only ones either.

In Week 4 of Biocivilisations, an online course with Dr. Predrag Slijepcevic, we learn about the possibilities of naturalised medicine, and how all kinds of species in the animal kingdom know and select which plants to exactly treat the ailments and diseases they are facing. Could the roots of human medicine be naturalist? Is modern medicine the product of a long history of evolution?