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Re: Locally adapted?
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Peter L Borst <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 18 Sep 2014 14:05:54 -0400
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> permanent genetic change at the level of the gene itself.

Yes, well, there is no such thing as permanent genetic change. Even in the same organism, mutations occur often enough that genomes can be different. They are certainly different in the next generation, due to recombination. Change is all there is, there is no permanence.

PLB

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