RE: Is artificial selection considered "evolution"?
March 12, 2012 at 4:27 pm
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2012 at 4:28 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(March 12, 2012 at 4:23 pm)Rhythm Wrote: There is a very fundamental difference. Conscious and (semi) intelligent control of the process, with predetermined outcomes which we will select for, and against. "Misbred" animals get their shot, "misbred" livestock gets shot.
It's a difference without fundamental distinction. Human consciousness is a product of nature, as is the claws and teeth of a tiger. How an animal is selected by humans through its self-absorbed and self-important "consciousness" is therefore no more or less natural than how animals are selected by tiger predation.
