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Date: | Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:06:17 -0400 |
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Darwin's contribution, whether by genius, intuition or luck, or a combination, was to piece together well known pieces of information, add keen personal observations and reason out of it all a coherent theory originally outlined well in "The Origin of the Species". Honey bee subspecies, whether a dozen or a hundred, are closer to examples of microevolution given the short time scale of development of tens of thousands of years- a different beast compared to the emergence of genera and species along geologic time scales of millions of years. Honey bee supspecies are tweaks of a few traits. Missing from our current observations, likely both for current honey bee subspecies, and for all creatures great and small are the hopeful monsters or failed experiments that may be so short lived that they leave no record. There were once horses and at least one species of Apis in North America.
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