Anatomy of a Controversy : : The Question of a “Language” Among Bees / / Adrian M. Wenner, Patrick H. Wells.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Wenner, Adrian M.,; Wells, Patrick H.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1990]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 1990
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231878203; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/wenn90330
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Adrian M. Wenner, Patrick H. Wells.

Examines the controversy around the question of a 'language' among honey bees, from a scientific prospective.