In message <[log in to unmask]>, Dave 
Thompson <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Think of Ukraine 12K yrs ago
>covered with ice yr around
>Imagine the next 4K yrs as ice melts
>Black sea is probably landlocked (& smaller)
>Trees grow, get big enough for bees
>Easier for bees to miagrate north
>than ENE out of mountain valleys

I dont know what you are getting at here. No-one has ever suggested that 
the Primorski area bees arrived there by natural migration. They were 
taken there by immigrants from western Russia/Ukraine when moving to the 
distant east. Thus their basic genetics........relative frequencies 
modified a bit by selection pressures in their new 
environment........are the product of the area they came from.
-- 
Murray McGregor

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