>But today we have commercial and capitalistic motivations that don't allow
this natural selection to really work as it's supposed to work, or as it has
worked in the past.

I've spent a good amount of time of late looking out the windows of
jetliners as I crisscross the continent.  Two things impress me with regard
to bees:

1.  How thoroughly humans have terraformed the Midwest, eliminating bee
habitat, and

2.  How much wild land there still is on the continent to act as a reservoir
for bees little affected by human influence.

Randy Oliver

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