Totally logical and true sentence, yet so hard to understand for many beekeepers *).
All domesticated animals have been “created” in the sense Brother Adam meant. Dog breeders seem to have forgotten this. Famous Swedish Buckfast breeder Ulf Gröhn in his lectures took an example of early days dog breeding. Doberman race was crossed with another race to develop it towards desired goals. Today the situation has changed dramatically. Kennel clubs start lawsuits against breeders who dare to make a crossing to another race. Fortunately, in Norway pure race breeding of certain dogs (English bulldogs and Cavalier King Charles Spaniels) have been banned by order of court. Creation of man has gone to far.
Study in Finland opened many eyes: Samples of bees were asked to send for investigation to determine their race. The beekeeper was asked which race the bees in the sample belonged to: Italian, Carnica or Mellifera (black bee). The results were astonishing. Only few pure Italian bees were found. Instead, many samples of pure Carnica bees were found, although the beekeepers who sent them insisted they were Italian…
*) https://naturebees.wordpress.com/2021/02/25/buckfast-is-a-race-not-a-hybrid/
But we have to remember, race is a definition of man, nothing more.
https://naturebees.wordpress.com/2020/05/03/genes-and-races/
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