In fact, some believe that
a genetic change of sorts took place in the domestic cat which actually makes them more social.
Not exact matches
A
change of this
sort can not destroy habits
of mind, temperament, emotional tendencies,
genetic and acquired behavioural patterns.
What has been called the modern synthesis
of the two fields emerged in the 1940s with the idea that the
sorts of genetic differences you could observe in populations, right out your window, when compounded and extrapolated over vast periods
of time, could account for the large - scale
changes we see in the fossil record.
And yet it is only by means
of making this
sort of change to our civilization that we are likely ever to get to the point at which we engaging in the
sort of genetic engineering and bending
of higher organisms to our purposes that he envisions.