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Subject:	Re: Anthropomorphisms
From:	Peter L Borst <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Thu, 15 Apr 2021 14:24:05 -0400
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Understanding "what it's like to be a bee" takes a lot more insight than that gained by watching videos of bees coming and going. A colony of bees resembles a colony of wasps more than just about anything else. Howard Evans looked into this more deeply than most:

There is something Orwellian about the inexorability of wasps' lives, the tyranny of their instincts. Wasps share our planet but live in a different world.  — H. E. Evans 1963.. Wasp Farm. Natural History Press, Doubleday, New York, New York. 

I would say that in all fields of biology one needs, now and then, to ask whether current theory, however satisfying, provides a clear view of reality.  —  Howard E. Evans. 1977. Extrinsic versus Intrinsic Factors in the Evolution of Insect Sociality. BioScience  Vol. 27, No. 9

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