Selective breeding

What is it? Choosing the parents to breed together in the hope the offspring will be what you want.

Who started it? Lets imagine you are a caveman

And say you found one of these:

Which will grow up into one of these:

This might end well for you and your family..

Or less well:

So you keep the friendly ones and deal with the ones that are dangerous

You choose to breed together the friendly ones and over time you create a new species- the dog. Some of these animals look pretty much like a wolf still-

Some not so much:

Some not at all:

In fact by choosing the parents we have created dogs for many different purposes:

We have also selectively bred many other species: This To this

We have also selectively bred many other species: This To this

And it has been the same for plants species as well

Wild bananas are full of seeds, modern bananas are sterile

In fact we can really mess about with plants

And animals,,,