Bugs Aren't Brainless! | Great Minds: Charles Henry Turner

At the turn of the 20th century, scientists thought that insects were nothing more than tiny reflex machines. But Charles Henry Turner, who was possibly America’s first Black entomologist, ran some groundbreaking animal behavior studies that suggested otherwise.

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