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Discovery of a Visual System - The Honeybee, The by Adrian Horridge (English) Ha
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- ISBN-13
- 9781789240894
- Book Title
- Discovery of a Visual System - The Honeybee, The
- ISBN
- 9781789240894
- Publication Year
- 2019
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- Textbook
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- The Discovery of a Visual System-The Honeybee
- Item Height
- 244mm
- Publisher
- CAbi Publishing
- Item Width
- 172mm
- Subject
- Zoology, Biology
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- 893g
- Number of Pages
- 296 Pages
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This book is the only account of what honeybees actually see. Bees detect some visual features such as edges and colours, 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 they clearly see well enough to fly and find food with a minute brain. Bee vision is therefore relevant to the construction of simple artificial visual systems, for example for mobile robots. 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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Publication Name
The Discovery of a Visual System-The Honeybee
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Hardcover
Language
English
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Zoology, Biology
Publication Year
2019
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Textbook
Number of Pages
296 Pages
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244mm
Item Width
172mm
Item Weight
893g
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