‘You can't be what you can't see’
How embracing his strengths helped Samuel Ramsey, aka Dr. Sammy, fight to save the honeybee, and to exemplify the fact that diversity is the most successful survival tactic in the insect world
Honeybees around the world may owe their future survival to Samuel Ramsey emphatically embracing all sides of himself: from his skin color and whom he loves, to his beliefs and background.
Ironically, it’s his fellow humans who almost stopped him from beelining to a, simply because they lacked the imagination to see him—a self-proclaimed “bundle of diversity”—as a successful scientist.
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