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...

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Published in:	Synthese Vol. 194; no. 5; pp. 1703 - 1725
Main Author:	Räz, Tim
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature May2017
Subjects:	Mathematical ability Mechanism (Philosophy) Reasoning Mathematical optimization Structural optimization
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