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18th May 2009

Waggle Dance Evolution

Diana O'Carroll

Bee collecting pollen at the Del Mar fairgrounds

How did the waggle dance - the complex dance that honeybees use to describe the whereabouts of good food - evolve in small steps? We find out in this Question of the Week. Plus, we ask where human evolution is taking us...

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How did the waggle dance evolve?

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