What Does the Honeybee See? And How Do We Know? : A Critique of Scientific Reason
This book is the only account of what the bee, as an example of an insect, actually detects with its eyes. Bees detect some visual features such as edges and colours, but there is no sign that they reconstruct patterns or put together features to form objects. Bees detect motion but have no percepti...
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2009
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