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In English
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Description:
Examines the controversy around the question of a 'language' among honey bees, from a scientific prospective
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Science, Controversy, and the Question of a Honey Bee Language -- 2. Philosophers and Paradigms -- 3. Relativism and Strong Inference -- 4. Two Hundred Years of Uncertainty -- 5. The Odor-Search Paradigm: History and Revision -- 6. The Dance Language Paradigm: Evolution and Acceptance -- 7. A Parade of Anomalies: Learning -- 8. A Parade of Anomalies: Odor -- 9. Transition in Approaches: Testing the Dance Language Hypothesis -- 10. Multiple Inference and “Crucial” Experiments -- 11. The Social Network -- 12. Reaffirming the Dance Language Hypothesis: Initial Attempts -- 13. The Realism School and Interpretation of Behavior -- 14. The Dance Language Controversy: Conflicts Between Paradigms -- Excursuses -- References Cited -- Index