I'm not sure which the "this" refers to so answer for both.Billy T, May I ask how you know this?... jan.
On honey bees having rules of behavior I know that from both personal observations when out of interest, more than desire for honey, I raised a hive for nearly two years, but I also read several books on them. (That is how I learned to use very fine flour dust to mark a bee I wanted to follow.) I'm not sure how bees get their assigned tasks, but they are much more moral about "doing their duty" than humans are. If their job is to collect in the field they do that, until typically one wing falls off or their ability to fly is damaged. I once saw a bee with his pollen sack full return to the hive, but the other hind leg was missing. Just flying so imbalanced must have been hard. During peak nectar flow, their life expectancy is only about three weeks. They literally give their life for the hive as they can live for at least 6 months when their is nothing to gather in the field. Likewise, the defenders will give their life by stinging an invader of the hive. (The stinger is barbed and it pulls the still pumping venom sack out of their body as their victim escapes and they soon die.) If they had a congress and metals, EVERY bee would deserve a Congressional metal of honor!
On " These morals evolve at least 10,000 times faster than physical characteristics do with environmental changes. " that is just a very conservative guess from what I have read. If a time machine could reach back 10,000 years and transport a new born to the current era, switching it for a just in hospital born baby, and then it got a normal up-bring no-one would notice any thing strange (physically or other wise) about it at any time in its life. Evolution is a very very slow process and at any point in time the genetic variations are much greater than the very slow drift in the gene pool average.
Contrast that with the rapid change in behavior / accepted morality. Hell, in less than a decade blacks eating in Baltimore's restaurant were not noticed even if they were a large group laughing loudly and celebrating something and I had a lot to do with making that change. I was proud when the president of JHU handed me my Ph.D. certificate, but not nearly as proud and pleased as when I sat in a Baltimore restaurant about 10 years later with my step-mother and silently watch that celebration. About four or five tables had been pushed together for this happy group of blacks* in the center of restaurant which had white occupied booths along both walls. I watched the whites too - not one seem even annoyed with the joyous but boisterous blacks. I have never been as proud, but said nothing to my step-mother who was also silent, but had thought it wrong for me to take a summer off from my Ph. D. research to help a bunch of ignorant smelly blacks, as she had commented when I did so.
* As I recall, there were more than dozen, two young men in army uniforms, an old black in a wheel chair, several ladies in party dresses, one of which was white - I guessed she was a "just married" bride.
SUMMARY: Behavior / morals can flip 180 degrees in less than a decade, but changing hearts takes longer - I'm sure my step-mother's views were not changed, only no longer expressed.
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