Volume 11, Number 9 · November 21, 1968
Bees Without Honey
By J.Z. Young
Life on a Little Known Planet
by Howard E. Evans
Dutton, 293 pp., $7.95
Animal Societies from the Bee to the Gorilla
by Remy Chauvin, translated by George Ordish
Hill & Wang, 288 pp., $6.50
Animals in Splendour
by E.L. Watson
Horizon, 153 pp., $4.95
The Dance Language and Orientation of Bees
by Karl von Frisch, translated by Leigh E. Chadwick
Harvard, 566 pp., $15.00
Man and Monkey
by Leonard Williams
Lippincott, 198 pp., $5.95
How much do we depend upon Nature? The question is neither absurd nor rhetorical, and it includes many of our fundamental dilemmas. At one level it is easy to answer that without animal and plant life there would be no food, so of course we are absolutely dependent upon them. But the animals and plants that we raise for food can be said to be only marginally part of Nature. A battery of hens or a field of wheat is almost as 'artificial' as a moon satellite, which is more at the mercy of 'the elements' than they are.
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