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Re: Mating Sign
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Kate Miller <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 18 Oct 2011 04:40:20 -0400
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This discussion seems to forget that evolutionary advantage would be for the species, not the individual.  Sure, the drone has a pretty low chance of fathering a line of queens, but the variety of genetic material is of benefit to the colony (the super organism) and thus the species, survival of the fittest was never about an individual bee!

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