This ancient curiosity gave rise to a powerful tool: artificial selection. Also known as selective breeding, artificial selection is the human-guided cousin of evolution by natural selection.

The DarwinTunes experiment provides a cute illustration of how natural selection works in an entirely artificial ecosystem. But can we learn anything more profound? I believe we can. Similar ...

Mike the Mad Biologist has a post up, A Biologist Confuses Artificial and Natural Selection: There's a really interesting article in last week's NY Times magazine ...