RE: Is artificial selection considered "evolution"?
March 12, 2012 at 4:23 pm
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2012 at 4:30 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
There is a very fundamental difference. Conscious and (semi) intelligent control of the process, with predetermined outcomes which we will select for, and against (that often have very little to do with the animal itself or it's environment). "Misbred" animals get their shot, "misbred" livestock gets shot. In that sense, it is "artificial" (though that's not actually why we refer to it that way, which is nothing more than our tendency to ascribe some other word or significance to what we do with relation to "nature", or "the natural"). Overall, though, Chuck I agree, our own breeding programs are a part of nature in that were are inseparable from nature (expect by our constant insistence to proclaim that we are somehow above/beside/beyond as mused on already).
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