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"""Fascinating both for its insights about nature and as a portrait of the scientist at work."" * Kirkus Reviews * ""[An] entertaining and informative memoir. . . . While readers will come to share [Seeley's] respect for the cognitive sophistication of these tiny creatures and their complex collective behavior, they will also come away with a deep admiration for the curious, energetic scientist who was motivated so long ago to find out how the honey bees do it.""---Laurence A. Marschall, Natural History"

"""Fascinating both for its insights about nature and as a portrait of the scientist at work."" * Kirkus Reviews * ""[An] entertaining and informative memoir. . . . While readers will come to share [Seeley's] respect for the cognitive sophistication of these tiny creatures and their complex collective behavior, they will also come away with a deep admiration for the curious, energetic scientist who was motivated so long ago to find out how the honey bees do it.""---Laurence A. Marschall, Natural History ""A wonderful read.""---Marc Bekoff, Psychology Today ""We all are in Seely's debt for this book and for his contribution to science. It truly is a portrait of excellence.""---David Gascoigne, Travels with Birds"

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Thomas D. Seeley is the Horace White Professor of Biology Emeritus at Cornell University. His books include The Lives of Bees, Following the Wild Bees, and Honeybee Democracy (all Princeton). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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