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A different sort of hive mind

from Thomas Seeley’s Honeybee Democracy:”We will see that the 1.5 kilograms (3 pounds) of bees in a honeybee swarm, just like the 1.5 kilograms (3 pounds) of neurons in a human brain, achieve their…

Posted on December 27, 2011 at 6:21pm
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I write on science, medicine, nature, education, and culture — and baseball and fishing when they let me — for the New York Times Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Slate, National Geographic, Scientific American Mind, and other publications; I've also written three books. More on all that is at daviddobbs.net. For blog posts tied closely tied to those interests, see my main working blog, NeuronCulture.

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