Thomas Dyer Seeley
Thomas Dyer Seeley | |
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Tom Seeley with observation hive of honey bees, in hut that he designed and constructed. Cranberry Lake Biological Station, New York, c. 1992. | |
| Born | June 17, 1952 Ellis Hollow, New York, US |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Dartmouth College, Harvard University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Honey bee behavior |
| Institutions | Cornell University |
| Doctoral advisor | Bert Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson |
Thomas Dyer Seeley is the Horace White Professor in Biology in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University. He is the author of several books on honeybee behavior, including Honeybee Democracy (2010) and The Wisdom of the Hive (1995) He was the recipient of the Humboldt Prize in Biology in 2001. He primarily studies swarm intelligence by investigating how bees collectively make decisions.