Anatomy of a Controversy: The Question of a "Language" among Bees

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Preface vii
• Science as a Process 1
• Strong Inference: Chamberlin's "Great Intellectual Invention" 33
• Earlier Interest in the Possible Existence of a Bee "Language" 55
• The Mechanism School 71
• Die "Sprache" Der Bienen 91
• The Importance of Locality Odors in the Recruitment of Naive Bees 129
• 11 - The Social Network 187
• A Search for Support of the Dance Language Hypothesis 207
• Rosin (1978): Insect-Level Versus Human-Level Explanations 233
• Our Experience in the World of Science 255
• Excursuses 269
• References Cited 373
• Index 389