ARTIFICIAL VS NATURAL SELECTION
To learn more about corn domestication, visit The evolution of corn.
Genetically modified food is a recent phenomenon.
Farmers have been manipulating heritable traits—which are encoded by genes—for millennia.
HHMI Holiday Lecture Connection
Dr. David Kingsley describes why Darwin used selective breeding as a key analogy to introduce his idea of evolution by natural selection.
HHMI Holiday Lecture Connection
Dr. David Kingsley reviews the history of dog domestication and provides examples of dog varieties generated by selective breeding.