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Re: Adaptation
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Bill Hesbach <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 5 Nov 2023 08:09:49 -0500
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>>  genetic, epigenetic, behavioral and environmental factors that represent several different modes of selective pressure.

The array of variables represented by these factors seems to make understanding the adaptation mechanism overwhelming, if not impossible.  Even more perplexing is that Varroa mites, incapable of little more than essential kairomone communication, face the same factors and seem to have become adequately adapted to their host.  Biology has a beautifully mysterious vocabulary, and we don't understand it yet.  

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