What did Charles Darwin discover as a result of his experiments with breeding pigeons?Desirable traits can be selected for and bred in offspring.Humans can create new species through selective breeding.Dogs and plants can be bred the in same way as pigeons.The pigeons had distinctive traits that were passed on to offspring
Biology · High School · Thu Feb 04 2021
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Charles Darwin's experiments with breeding pigeons helped him to observe that certain traits which are seen as desirable can indeed be selected for and intentionally breed into the offspring. These observations were part of the body of research that led to his formulation of the theory of natural selection. He noticed that by selecting pigeons with particular characteristics to reproduce, he could produce offspring with those same characteristics in a much more pronounced way. This insight was critical to understanding how traits could be passed down through generations and potentially lead to the evolution of new species over long periods of time.