All the queen's men.
Humans have an ancient and intimate relationship with honey bees--from the development of beekeeping in prehistoric times up to the recent sequencing of the honey bee genome. Yet, the intimacies of bee sexuality remained obscure and contentious until relatively recently. Their stepwise unravelling is a tale of advances and misconception that, in part, may have stemmed from an all too humanised view of bees.
Maderspacher
Florian
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