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I always enjoyed Adrian Adrian Wenner (47/50) | UCSB College of Creative
Studies <https://ccs.ucsb.edu/ccs-profiles/adrian-wenner-4750> and just
now checked the list to see if he is still subscribed. If he is, it is
not under his names. If he is still around I think he would be
ninety-two. Last I saw him was at his home in Santa Barbara in 2006.
My impression was that he was having a lot of fun with the
'science-is-settled' crowd of the time, and did very fine job of
pulling their whiskers. Did he really reject the dance? No, but he did
raise good questions for those who were inclined to imbue it with magic
properties, and repeatedly challenged it with the old issue of proving
cause, association, and effect.
Fact is he had some good arguments for alternate methods of discovery
and I suspect Jerry will confirm that recognition and discoveryof crops
and other things of interest and communication is not all dance as some
all-or-nothing folks wanted to believe.
Location and communication by honey bees is, AFAIK, more complex and
nuanced than just dance although I have watched Tom Seeley demonstrate
clearly at EAS that the bee dance means something--at least to humans.
> For more than two decades we have been treated to one claim or
another that the bee "language" issue has finally been resolved. ...
Perhaps the major problem in this affair is that "language" proponents
embrace results that support their belief system and dismiss results
that do not fit the hypothesis. ... And I have yet to find a beekeeper
who has benefited from the dance "language" hypothesis in its 50 years
of existence. -- A. W.
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