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Maybe tampering with evolution and natural selection isn't the greatest idea.

• newzisforsukas 2y ago
  I've never understood the need for a distinction between artificial and natural selection. Humans have needs based on our genetics and environment interactions that lead to other selection pressures. Humans are of nature, it seems pointless to call it artificial.
  • verdverm 2y ago
    Beavers modify their environment for their own benefit too, and subsequently create benefits/detriments to other species
    • newzisforsukas 2y ago
      Yeah, part of my point is that every living thing does this. It is a sort of dissonance to accept evolution and to also think you are somehow outside of it.
• verdverm 2y ago
  That's kind of human's modus operandi, whether it be breed favoring cows and chickens, modifying plants through grafting, building roads that impact natural boundaries and movements, the list is probably endless. At my university, we had a nature preserve, but the deer were eating it to destruction. They had a plan to cull the population while the students were on break, using bows, but a small group somehow foiled the plan in the name of protecting the deer... There are a bunch of competing interests about what conservation means and how we should go about it.