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Originally posted by elaphe
greytone was correct in stating that Darwin was able to get an idea of the mechanism of natural selection through pigeon breeding, but natural selection is about random chance and domestication of agricultural livestock cannot be compared due its mechanism of directed selection (A farmer "selects" traits when breeding the livestock that are desirable only to the farmer).
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I agree that animal husbandry is not natural selection. But it is evolution in the sense that it a change in gene frequency of a given population over time. It is not Evolution as discussed in this thread, but its existence supports the existence of the greater evolution, in my mind. In other words, if we are seeing a change in a species in just a few generations, then how can we deny that natural populations change over time?