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What constitutes a mind? Lars Chittka challenges our perception of sentience with the smallest of creatures

  • Written by: Eliza Middleton, Laboratory Manager, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney
What constitutes a mind? Lars Chittka challenges our perception of sentience with the smallest of creaturesJon Sullivan/Wikimedia Commons

At the beginning of my research career around 15 years ago, any suggestion that a bee, or any invertebrate, had a mind of its own or that it could experience the world in an intricate and multifaceted way would be met with ridicule. As Lars Chittka points out in the opening chapters of The Mind of a Bee, the...

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