Artificial selection in the lab
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Well, you might say it’s a bit of both. Or you might completely do away with the concept of artificial selection. Humans are part of nature just as much as gazelles. The first select tastier cows, the second faster gepards. Artificial selection is, seen from that angle, not much more than a special case of natural selection.
Artificial selection would be, as you said, explicitly done by humans (ie, selectively killing / breeding to get the desired traits).
How else to put it... humans often choose by traits, regardless of their efficiency. Nature chooses by individuals / efficiency, often regardless of a specific trait.
I think that's a good way of phrasing it.
>> Artificial selection would be, as you said, explicitly done by humans (ie, selectively killing / breeding to get the desired traits).
Like that Russian fox domestication experiment.