The thing about animal husbandry is that we haven’t been doing it long enough to know what really can be done with it. It certainly seems like evolution could be speeded up by selective breeding. Could we breed smart dogs that could reason and talk? Maybe, but it might take longer than man has been around dogs up to now, it might take hundreds of thousands of years or longer if possible at all. Same with turning a reptile into a mammal or something.
Freegards
Ransomed: ** “Could we breed smart dogs that could reason and talk?
Maybe, but it might take longer than man has been around dogs up to now, it might take hundreds of thousands of years or longer if possible at all.
Same with turning a reptile into a mammal or something.” **
Natural evolution theory is all about “baby steps”, one step at a time, no great leaps of imagination.
So in nature, alligators do not suddenly spring wings and fly, and fish do not often take up mountain climbimg.
Instead, step by small step they make changes as dictated by their environments and genetic possibilities.
Humans can greatly speed up the process by selective breeding, and who knows what genetic engineering may lead to?
But nature is loathe to change what seems to be working just fine.