Instant Genius is a bite-sized masterclass in podcast form. In this week’s episode, we talk to Prof Lars Chittka.
He’s a professor of sensory and behavioural ecology at Queen Mary University of London, and author of The Mind Of A Bee (£25, Princeton University Press).
He unpacks the incredible depth of intelligence exquisitely packed into a bee’s brain.
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And if that’s not enough, you can hear even more from Lars on Instant Genius Extra.
On this subscription-only show, available on Apple Podcasts, we take a deeper dive into the topics covered on Instant Genius. In this episode, Lars reveals why we should care about bee brains and how the hive mind really works.
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