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Is artificial selection considered "evolution"?

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Is artificial selection considered "evolution"?
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RE: Is artificial selection considered "evolution"?
March 12, 2012 at 5:14 pm
(March 12, 2012 at 5:09 pm)Rhythm Wrote: "Natural" Selection describes one type of process.

"Artificial" Selection describes another, one with at least one, massive, difference.

These words don't have anything to do with the mechanism by which either effect is achieved. That's the same biology in both cases. It's the agent that causes us to make the distinction.
(neither of you are actually disagreeing with me, as I've already made this same criticism of how human beings word things and perceive things many many posts ago)

Certain types of ants "farm" aphids, and some farm fungus. Are the ants doing anything artificial? They have certainly cultivated very specific qualities in the other species they are farming. How are we different?
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RE: Is artificial selection considered "evolution"? - by Modular Moog V - March 12, 2012 at 5:14 pm

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