Boreades
In: finity and beyond
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Hatty wrote: | There was a discussion on the radio about symmetry where one of the interviewees stated that the brain is structured in such a way as to recognise symmetry and she cited the bumble bee being attracted to flowers because of their symmetrical pattern (apparently bees lack a sense of direction and are colour blind). I don't know if this is accepted in the science community. Why not the other way round, that flowers evolved a symmetrical pattern to attract the bees? |
Yes we might like symmetry but please excuse my French, but this is bollocks. Bees have a highly developed sense of direction, and shape recognition. See the Waggle Dance of Bees.
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