Question

Dawkins suggests that selection is powerful yet unconscious of it's actions ("without any understanding at all"). He uses a variety of examples to highlight how various organisms drive selection, sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously, by mediating the breeding process. Using one of the examples explain how some organisms unconsciously drive the selection of others

Answer 1

Answer:

An example some organisms unconsciously drive the selection of others is DOMESTICATION in plants

Explanation:

In plant domestication, unconscious selection brought about by the fact that the plants concerned were taken from their original wild habitats and placed in new and very different human-made or human-managed environments.

The shift in the ecology led automatically to drastic changes in selection pressures. Numerous adaptations vital for survival in the wild environments lost their fitness under the new sets of conditions. New traits were automatically selected, resulting in the build-up of characteristic “domestication syndromes,” each fitting the specific agricultural environment provided by the farmer.

With this explanation, it can be established that the wild plants unconsciously drive the selection of domestic plants, through a change in habitat by farmer