“It has been loosely said that all our races of dogs have been produced by the crossing of a few aboriginal species.” Although Darwin saw probable that our domestic dogs have descended from several wild species, he believed that in order for the above statement to be correct, we would have to consider the existence of the most “extreme forms” living in the wild. Darwin pointed out that in many cases we did not know what the aboriginal stock was, thus it would be unlikely for domestic varieties to live in a wild state. Moreover, Darwin asserts that domesticated races undergo adaptation, not necessarily for the organisms own interest but for the better good to man. Dawkins, to some extent, shares the same believe towards adaptation through a process that he called “survival of the stable.” Dawkins indicated that natural selection was nothing more than adaptation between stable components vs. unstable components. If we consider Mendelian genetics, the segregation of alleles and the possibility of random mutations, along with the effects that an environment or specific conditions have on organisms we can see more clearly how to evolution takes place.
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