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The magnitude of the changes that are possible now are so far beyond what was available with selective breeding, it's nonsensical to consider them in the same l
by mark-r 11y ago
The magnitude of the changes that are possible now are so far beyond what was available with selective breeding, it's nonsensical to consider them in the same league. I wish people would stop trotting out that argument.
- DustinCalim 11y agoAre you sure? The Chihuahua was bred out of a wolf.
- mark-r 11y agoThe Chihuahua does not have horns.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> The magnitude of the changes that are possible now are so far beyond what was available with selective breeding, it's nonsensical to consider them in the same league. The pace, more than magnitude, of changes achievable is greater now (either with GMOs or mutation breeding) than with older forms of selective breeding (mutation breeding is, after all, a form of selective breeding.)
- unprepare 11y agoWhat about things like adding bioluminescence to organisms that never had such a gene, nor would have naturally come across it? Seems a step or two removed from selective breeding to me, though I'm not arguing for or against GMOs, just saying that it seems to me there is a definite distinction between the processes and what they are capable of doing.