Description
Prompt: Write an essay that integrates your understanding of the importance of some aspect of plant and animal domestication to modern and/or human culture. Address both the influences of humans on domesticated species and the influences of domesticated species on humans.
Write about only ONE of these domesticated events: plant or animal in reference to human evolution.
I personally would like to talk about domesticated PLANTS. Please use this question as the topic of discussion for the paper while addressing the prompt: What are the likely evolutionary advantages to possessing traits that are considered beautiful?
References
What flowers do we like? The influence of shape and color on the rating of flower beauty
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4906640/
Aesthetic evolution by mate choice: Darwin’s really dangerous idea:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3391426/
Gene flow and natural selection shape spatial patterns of genes in tree populations: implications for evolutionary processes and applications:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4780383/
