Gould J L
Q Rev Biol. 1976 Jun;51(2):211-44. doi: 10.1086/409309.
In recent years, the evidence suggesting that honey bees communicate with a "dance language" has been stronly attached on both theoretical and experimental grounds. An alternative theory has been proposed by which bees are supposed to use only odors to locate sources of food. A review of the evolution of the controversy isolates and analyzes the main issues. Early experiments which she fundamental problem in this important dispute has been that dancing bees advertise a food location with site-specific odoer information as well as symbolic distance and direction coordinates. A new technique has overcome this problem and demonstrated that von Frisch's dance language theory is, on the whole, correct. The apparently contradictory results of Wenner and his colleagues are shown to be due to their techniques for training bees. The dance-language controversy raises issues beyond how bees communicate. These include whether and when "evolutionary" arguments are useful, and to what extent Kuhn's scientific revolution paradign fits the dispute.
近年来，有证据表明蜜蜂通过“舞蹈语言”进行交流，这一观点在理论和实验层面都遭到了强烈质疑。另一种理论被提出来，认为蜜蜂仅通过气味来定位食物来源。回顾这场争议的演变过程，我们分离并分析了主要问题。早期实验表明，这场重要争论的根本问题在于，跳舞的蜜蜂在宣传食物位置时，既带有特定地点的气味信息，也带有象征性的距离和方向坐标。一项新技术克服了这个问题，并证明总体而言，冯·弗里施的舞蹈语言理论是正确的。温纳及其同事那些明显相互矛盾的结果，被证明是由于他们训练蜜蜂的技术所致。舞蹈语言之争引发的问题超出了蜜蜂如何交流的范畴。这些问题包括“进化”论点是否有用以及何时有用，还有库恩的科学革命范式在多大程度上适用于这场争议。
