Re: Tiny brained bees solve a complex mathematical problem, Queen Mary, University of London
Posted by
Russ Abbott on
Nov 22, 2010; 6:09pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Tiny-brained-bees-solve-a-complex-mathematical-problem-Queen-Mary-University-of-London-tp5763398p5763677.html
Sounds amazing, but it's not quite as significant as the press release makes it out to be. Here's the abstract from <a href="http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/657042">The American Naturalist</a>. All the bees need do is keep track of the distance for any route and then through experimentation among different routes select the shortest found so far.
-- Russ Abbott
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Owen Densmore
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