A Moment of Science
900 years ago, legend has it that the surviving members of a losing Japanese army threw themselves into the water, and were turned into crabs.
In this instance, nature is said to have “selected” the camouflaged butterfly over other variations that weren’t as well hidden. In “artificial selection,” the same thing happens, only we human beings make the choices.
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