Anatomy of a Controversy : The Question of a 2Language3 Among Bees

Examines the controversy around the question of a 'language' among honey bees, from a scientific prospective. Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1. Science, Controversy, and the Question of a Honey Bee Language 2. Philosophers and Paradigms 3. Relativism and Strong Inference 4. Two Hundred Years of Uncertainty 5. The Odor-Search Paradigm: History and Revision 6. The Dance Language Paradigm: Evolution and Acceptance 7. A Parade of Anomalies: Learning 8. A Parade of Anomalies: Odor 9. Transition in Approaches: Testing the Dance Language Hypothesis 10. Multiple Inference and “Crucial” Experiments 11. The Social Network 12. Reaffirming the Dance Language Hypothesis: Initial Attempts 13. The Realism School and Interpretation of Behavior 14. The Dance Language Controversy: Conflicts Between Paradigms Excursuses References Cited Index