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One Brake, Three Different Levers
Which sources back which section of this article, and what its evidence base looks like.
Which sources back which section
| Section | Sources behind it |
|---|---|
| What Happened | BBC Future, Quaglia (2026); Sontag, Hoffmann, Rogers & Yates, Advanced Science (2026); Buhl and others, Science (2006); Planas-Sitjà and others, PLoS ONE (2018); Planas-Sitjà and others, Proc. R. Soc. B (2015); Planas-Sitjà, Behavioural Processes (2020) |
| Timeline | BBC Future, Quaglia (2026); Sontag, Hoffmann, Rogers & Yates, Advanced Science (2026); University of Bath press release (2026); University of Bath Research Data Archive (2026); Buhl and others, Science (2006); Di Caro & Dorigo, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (1998); Marco Dorigo’s own CV page; Planas-Sitjà and others, PLoS ONE (2018); Planas-Sitjà and others, Proc. R. Soc. B (2015); Seeley and others, Science (2012); Seeley, Honeybee Democracy, Princeton University Press (2010); DasGupta, Ferreira & Miesenböck, Science (2014); Burke & Waddell, Current Biology (2011) |
| The Argument | Sontag, Hoffmann, Rogers & Yates, Advanced Science (2026); Di Caro & Dorigo, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (1998); Seeley and others, Science (2012); Seeley, Honeybee Democracy, Princeton University Press (2010) |
| What Others Add | BBC Future, Quaglia (2026); Di Caro & Dorigo, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (1998); Marco Dorigo’s own CV page; Planas-Sitjà and others, PLoS ONE (2018); Planas-Sitjà and others, Proc. R. Soc. B (2015); Seeley and others, Science (2012); Seeley, Honeybee Democracy, Princeton University Press (2010); DasGupta, Ferreira & Miesenböck, Science (2014) |
| Conclusion | BBC Future, Quaglia (2026); Sontag, Hoffmann, Rogers & Yates, Advanced Science (2026); University of Bath press release (2026); Seeley and others, Science (2012) |
What the evidence base looks like
- 14Sources behind this article
- 5Sections, every one of them sourced
- 5Read in full
- 9Read at the abstract only
| What the source is | How many | How they were read |
|---|---|---|
| Primary research papers, and the data record behind one of them | 10 | Two read in full — the 2026 paper and its data record; eight at the abstract |
| The press feature the article reviews | 1 | Read in full, at the publisher’s own page |
| Accounts by an interested party: a university on its own research, a researcher on himself | 2 | Both read in full |
| A publisher’s page for a book | 1 | The publisher’s description and bibliographic details; the book itself was not read |
Reliable
Reliable, but with an interestWorth believing and reliableWeak on both, and used with careHonest, but thin
Worth believing