Natural Selection Vs Artificial Selection

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By definition, human evolution is, in a biological context, “the process of descent with modification that is responsible for the origin, maintenance, and diversity of life” (Bergstrom, 2012: G-3). This interest in the investigation of, human origins and human variation goes once more to vestige. Proficient works on these themes are said to have begun with the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. The Enlightenment was also a period when the concept of ‘race’ was formalized and various racial classification systems were proposed (Little, 2010:42). To analyze what I’ve read in the textbook, an explanation of how the idea of evolution came to be.

Charles Darwin traveled on The HMS Beagle around the world, gathering information on flora and fauna. Just like his grandfather Erasmus Darwin spoke of species changing over time. “Darwin along with Russel Wallace suggested a mechanism, natural selection, to explain how that connectedness and functional traits of organisms came about” (Little, 2010:70). The finches in the …show more content…
Where natural selection is random whereas artificial selection is nonrandom, humans select those with the trait that is considered beneficial. Due to population size of buffalo in Wyoming it has been common for buffalo to find their way into nearby ranches and interbred with the domestic cows. This was initially an accident. Humans have been controlling this interbreeding ever since and have made a breeding program. This form of artificial selection is common in agriculture. Nurseries make it their job to selection which plant would be “better” for them. What I mean by better is, what the nursery considers beneficial for their client base. Hybrid plants came into existence due this form of experimentation with fruit plants. Things like grapefruit, tangelo, and the most common in South Florida are avocado hybrids, are all examples of experiments done by humans to get the results they

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