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Re: Locally adapted?
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randy oliver <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 3 Sep 2014 09:17:31 -0700
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>Then you have much colder temperatures and only the ones living in caves
survive. Did the population adapt? The susceptible ones all died. The cave
dwellers rode it out, and became the new population when the ice age
receded.

The surviving population may then have a greater proportion of colonies
that carried alleles for the behavior of dwelling in caves.  If such were
the case, in subsequent years, the majority of the population might be cave
dwellers.

A few more years of extremely cold winters could well result in a
population that was better adapted to cold winters.


-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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