WEIT 2012 Chap5

What are the advantages of artificial selection?

Natural selection is very advantageous for humans.
It is a process that can make life easier. For example, farmers can change the traits of their animals and plants in order to have best harvests and more productive animals in a shortest time. They also need to choose which traits they want to modify to win more time (and consequently more money). This process can also improve survival or reproductive ability by changing some traits of the plant or the animal.