Natural selection or domestication?
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Apparently scientists from Environmental Science and Research (ESR) have established that cannabis grown in New Zealand is four times stronger than when they last tested 14 years ago ( see Cannabis grown in NZ stronger than ever, study finds).
I wonder if this is just an example of evolution by natural selection.
Or is it domestication?
Conscious selection?
Maybe even intelligent design?
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2 Responses to “Natural selection or domestication?”
Definitely not a case for intelligent design, maybe intelligently designed growing equipments. 🙂 I think, I might be wrong (but read it somewhere, can’t remember now), that domestically grown cannabis plant has been getting steadily stronger over the world. I would say a case of domestic selection may be the main driving force for change here.
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Probably conscious selection, but in a small country with an isolated gene pool, could be genetic drift.