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Subject:	Re: Locally adapted?
From:	randy oliver <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Wed, 3 Sep 2014 09:20:59 -0700
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>Seems to me that if it takes 500 years and multiple
generations,  its not adapting at all.  You can use the term evolution.

You can use the term "adaptation."
A biologist says that a trait is "adaptive."
Adaptive change in traits over time is called evolution.
Some in the elephant clan were adapted to the tropics; some adapted to
temperate prairie.

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

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