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Re: The superorganism analogy
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Peter Borst <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 11 Dec 2023 16:40:14 -0500
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>  No bee has a concept of "the greater good" or "the good of the hive"

Quite frankly, that may be so. But clearly we have no idea what goes on in the mind of the bee. To suppose that they are mindless automatons is simply a sad way of looking at it. 

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