Practice question · True or false
Domestication was a deliberate human decision to improve wild species.
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- It is selection under human activity, not a plan.
- Harvesting practices did the selecting without anyone intending it.
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False
Why
It is evolution under human selection, largely unintentional. Harvesting practices, not plans, did the selecting, and the animals came along by way of the tameness syndrome: smaller brains, floppy ears, patchy coats, earlier breeding.
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