Einstein was wrong: Demise of bees won't bring humanity to its knees



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By Jenny Haworth, Environment correspondent
ACCORDING to folklore, Albert Einstein once warned that if bees died out, humans would follow four years later.

However, scientists have described the idea that humans rely on honeybees to survive as a "myth".

Honeybees pollinate many of the vegetables and fruit eaten by humans and that feed livestock.

Now researchers writing in Current Biology say it is not true that a decline in the pollinators may threaten the human food supply creating a "pollination crisis".

The scientists from Argentina and Canada argue that most agricultural crop production does not depend on pollinatorshttp://news.scotsman.com/scitech/Einstein-was-wrong-Demise-of.5247636.jp

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