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A Precise and Autonomous System for the Detection of Insect Emergence Patterns
Published on: January 9, 2019
Animal cognition: an insect's sense of time?
Peter Skorupski1, Lars Chittka
1School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK. p.skorupski@qmul.ac.uk
Abstract:
For Immanuel Kant, time was the very form of the inner sense, the bedrock of our consciousness and also the origin of arithmetic ability. New research on bumblebees has shown that even an invertebrate with a brain the size of a pinhead can actively sense the passage of elapsed time, allowing it to predict when certain salient events will occur in the future.
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