Edit: I meant specifically humans.

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    1 year ago

    I don’t think so, at least in the context of natural selection.

    GMOs for example are certainly not part of natural selection.

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      1 year ago

      That’s exactly what I mean. Frogs are part of nature, everything they do is natural.
      If you count humans as part of nature, everything they do is natural, including GMO.
      Which means, if you count humans as part of nature, the term nature has no meaning.
      It’s only meaningful as the opposite of “man-made”.

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        1 year ago

        That’s true if you talk about nature as such. I was just talking about the selection part.

        The thing is that there are quite a few species that “domesticate” other species. And while doing so, they conciously select for the specimen that best fits their needs.

        Bears domesticated apples, selecting for the biggest aand sweetest, thus apples evolved from small and bitter to a bit larger and sweeter.

        Ants farm aphids and also there they select for those that yield the most milk.

        The big difference between humans and animals is that we form much more of these symbiotic relationships.