Flowers and Honeybees

Abstract

Can we discover morality in nature? Flowers and Honeybees extends the considerable scienti c knowledge of owers and honeybees through a philosophical discussion of the origins of morality in nature. Flowering plants and honeybees form a social group where each requires the other. They do not intentionally harm each other, both reason, and they do not compete for commonly required resources. They also could not be more di ferent. Flowering plants are rooted in the ground and have no brains. Mobile honeybees can communicate the location of ower resources to other workers. We can learn from a million-year-old social relationship how morality can be constructed and maintained over time. Readership This is for lay and academic readers interested in plant and animal science, ethics, and the emergence of morality in nature. For more information see brill.com