Friday, June 24, 2011

The Human Queen Bee

According to a TED talk by Wade Davis, there is a tribe that sequesters future tribal leaders in a cave for 18 years before being allowed to assume their role. In essence, they create a leader by raising him via a special process until adulthood. This process produces an altered human different from everyone else. It seems to be similar to the creation of a queen bee. An otherwise normal bee is treated differently while being raised to adulthood when they emerge as a queen.

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