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I didn't click on this link, but I really hope the domestication experiment with foxes is not being called 'evolution'.

• gwern 13y ago
  Why not? Reproduction with variation and selection (by the humans). Seems like evolution to me.
  • achy 13y ago
    Because evolution relies on survival of the fittest and genetic mutation. Your Chi-Pom-Poodle-Terrier isn't an evolutionary step for the canine. And most of all I don't want creationists to think that 'hand of god' is a valid evolutionary driver ;)
    • gwern 13y ago
      > Because evolution relies on survival of the fittest Which is defined by the humans in this case. > Your Chi-Pom-Poodle-Terrier isn't an evolutionary step for the canine. Any change is an 'evolutionary step'. You're thinking in dangerously telelogical and moralizing terms.