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I don’t drink coffee either.

“as I loathe tea.”

Personally, I’ve always found it troubling that people who accept artificial selection (which is pretty hard to deny: Chihuahuas from wolves, or the ancestors of wolves etc), explicitly deny natural selection.

Let’s be reminded that the decision to spilt different animals into sub-species, species, or genus, is an entirely man-made artifact. Nature doesn’t work that way, it creates a wide array of animals through evolution, whether natural or man-made, which we then ascribe a label to. And of course, there are “lumpers” and “splitters”.

I ask, if Darwin himself, or any naturalist for that matter, had found that first big-cropped, long-legged bird in the wild, surely it would have been a species of its own.