The silent hexagon: explaining comb structures.
The paper presents, and discusses, four candidate explanations of the structure, and construction, of the bees' honeycomb. So far, philosophers have used one of these four explanations, based on the mathematical Honeycomb Conjecture, while the other three candidate explanations have been ignored. I...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 194; no. 5; pp. 1703 - 1725 |
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