So, they began testing it the only way they could — by breeding plants and animals, watching what happened, and doing it again. This ancient curiosity gave rise to a powerful tool: artificial ...

Yet domestication can also be seen as a type of plant–animal co-evolution, conceptually similar to examples of ... the nature of adaptive selection in the genomes of crop species.

Selective breeding, also known as artificial selection ... it's responsible for many of the plants and animals that we know today. One of the earliest examples of selective breeding is the ...

Humans have been altering crops through various breeding methods ... have eaten ever since we cultivated them. It’s called artificial selection. Not everyone’s convinced, though.