Yes it is evolution.......evolution is the change in gene frequencies of a population over time. So it is evolution.....Originally Posted by Shelby
Selective breeding (unnatural selection if you will) is what takes a wild canine and makes it a poodle. A domestic dog has far less genetic diversity than a wild dog.. a poodle for instance has lost the genetic ability to produce a normal shedding double coat.
Accumulated genetic mistakes (mutations that cause non shedding hair, loss of pigment, stunted growth etc as in a white toy poodle) along with natural variation were selected for by people to produce a pet breed in the case of a poodle..
No new information has been added to the DNA.. hence a domestic dog and a wolf can still interbreed.. they are the same animal still, even though they appear so different. This isn't evolution, and I know I may ruffle some feathers here by saying so.
You could make an argument that it isn't speciation. You would be relying heavily on a lab-based biological species concept......(which means you might have to consider a Ball and a Angolan python the same species)...would a wolf in the wild really mate with a domesticated dog?
Bottom line.....Speciation and Evolution are not the same thing.....
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