The difficult birth of honeybee colour vision -- No way to untie the spell -- Innovation, deep thought and hard work -- The fundamentals of the insect compound eye -- How bees distinguish colours and modulation -- Feature detectors, cues resolution, preferences and coincidences -- Symmetry and asymmetry: signposts in route finding -- Bee vision is not adapted for pattern or shape -- The visual control of flight -- The route to the goal and back again -- What was not mentioned -- What we learned
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This book presents a new and controversial theory of how honeybees see the world from one of the world's most eminent neuroscientists. It also explores the fascinating history of this field of endeavour.