1. Ever since the discovery in the 1940s that bees performed a dance to direct other bees to the location of a food source, scientists have debated how the bees transmit such information. Some assumed that the specific scent of the location clings to a bee; then worker bees would sniff and follow. Others believed that a more sophisticated means of communication exists among bees. It finally turns out that the latter camp is correct-the lowly bee has a very advanced neurological system.