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Re: Darwin's Black Box
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Pete B <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 16 Dec 2019 23:21:05 -0500
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> We could use a lot more hard-data tracking of colony survival with whatever genetic lines are being kept by successful TF folk.

1) good luck getting data from those types

2) without data, there's no evidence to show there are heritable traits

3) the whole black box paradigm is "we don't care how it works, as long as it does." this is antithetical to scientific inquiry, and leads nowhere

PLB

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