The results of this experiment provide corroborating evidence to the claim that Artificial selection is a much more <u>rapid process than natural selection</u>.
Natural selection is the basis of the theory of evolution put forward by <u><em>Charles Darwin</em></u>. The idea of natural selection is key to our understanding of evolution and proposes a "<em>survival of the fittest</em>" kind of scenario in which :
- Members of a population who possess a trait that is better adapted for survival will live longer to pass on said trait and evolve.
- Members without the trait slowly die off over the generations, being less able to reproduce with each generational change.
Artificial selection on other hand, as the name implies, is not a natural process at all. It is instead a<u> human-controlled version </u>of the previously mentioned.
This method, also known as selective breeding, is when humans selectively breed individuals of a population who possess traits that we deem desirable. Some examples in which humans use selective breeding are:
- Dogs
- Horses
- Pigs
- Vegetables
- Wheat
etc.
We use artificial selection or selective breeding to produce animals or food with desirable traits to humans, such as perhaps a <u>horse whose longer legs allow it to travel further</u>, or a <u>pig who grows much bigger in a shorter amount of time</u>.
This uses the same method as natural selection by reproducing the desired trait until only that version of the trait exists in the population.
However, this method <u>does not need to wait for the opposing trait to die out over many generations</u>, it can be isolated from the start, which means that Artificial selection <u>is a much more rapid process than natural selection</u>. We can conclude that the first conclusion is correct.
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