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Discovery of a Visual System – The Honeybee, The

Autor Adrian Horridge
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 mai 2019
This book is the only account of what honeybees actually see. Bees detect some visual features such as edges and colors, but there is no sign that they reconstruct patterns or put together features to form objects. Bees detect motion but have no perception of what it is that moves, and certainly they do not recognize "things" by their shapes. Yet, even with a minute brain, they clearly see well enough to fly and find food. The surprising conclusion is that bee vision is adapted to the recognition of places, not things. In this volume, Adrian Horridge also sets out the curious and contentious history of how bee vision came to be understood, with an account of a century of neglect of old experimental results, errors of interpretation, sharp disagreements, and failures of the scientific method. The design of the experiments and the methods of making inferences from observations are also critically examined, with the conclusion that scientists are often hesitant, imperfect and misleading, ignore the work of others, and fail to consider alternative explanations. The erratic path to understanding makes interesting reading for anyone with an interest in the workings of science but particularly those researching insect vision and invertebrate sensory systems.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781789240894
ISBN-10: 1789240891
Pagini: 296
Dimensiuni: 178 x 249 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.89 kg
Editura: CABI

Notă biografică

Adrian Horridge is formerly of The Australian National University, Canberra.

Descriere

This book presents a new and controversial theory of how honeybees see the world from one of the world's most eminent neuroscientists. It also explores the fascinating history of this field of endeavour.