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Re: New study on cell size
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Peter Borst <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:45:39 -0500
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Murray McGregor wrote:
>EHB races are supposedly of an older type than the central African types, and that scutellata is in all probability one of the most recently evolved.


Where did this information come from? Hepburn (1998) has them originating somewhere in modern day Iran, with the European and African types branching from there.  Brother Adam assumed honey bees came to Europe from Africa.

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