this topic is as perennial as weeds

Seeley TD (2017). Darwinian Beekeeping: an evolutionary approach to apiculture. American Bee Journal
Blacquière, T., & Panziera, D. (2018). A plea for use of honey bees’ natural resilience in beekeeping. Bee World

However, the outcome of evolution is never assured, nor inevitable, for example

There were really two questions Darwin needed to answer: First, does natural selection actually exist and operate in nature; is there a survival and reproductive differential on the basis of advantageous traits? Second, what power does natural selection have to produce change? It is important to recognize that these questions are not equivalent. 

That natural selection actually exists and operates does not establish that it has any particular causal efficacy to produce change. It could exist and operate, and still not produce permanent, unlimited change. There are many reasons why the existence and operation of natural selection do not automatically imply its causal efficacy. 

For instance, if the advantageous traits are not inherited by the offspring, then there would be no permanent change in the population. Or, if there were no new and more divergent variations produced in the following generations, then change would be limited.

Richards, R. A. (2005). Is domestic breeding evidence for (or against) Darwinian evolution?

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