While folks who misunderstand the scientific method challenge evolution as "mere theory" in letters to the editor of the Concord Monitor, the fact is that human beings have been artificially selecting plants and animals with desirable characteristics for pollination and fertilization for centuries beyond counting. (Meso-Americans were crafting maize for thousands of years before evolution or creationism were even articulated.) Alan McIntyre's biology classes considered the highly-evolved product of calculated, artificial selection within a species wholly descended from wolves, canus domesticus.
Then we considered gallus gallus, a species differentiatd by man over hundreds of years for three purposes: fighting, bulking up with meat, and laying eggs (and then not caring to sit on them). Here, students listen attentively to....
...to Alan, of course!
Artificial or natural selection? Juniors swarm after assembly to select their class representatives to next year's Student Leadership Board:
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