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  • Harris bees 1766

    Text 8: Charles Darwin, “Instinct,” On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life (1859), 207-244.

    Context 8: Instinct as innate, instinct as socially acquired; the bee as designer; animal intelligence

    Assigned reading: Sarah Davis, “Darwin, Tegetmeier and the bees,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 35 (2004): 65–92. [on campus]

    Presentation: Varvara