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Re:Are Domestic and Wild Salmon Still the Same Species? by lugus35 on Friday November 27, 2015 @07:59AM (#10637080)
"We now manage salmon’s evolution—even to the point of genetically modifying them to grow faster."

It's not "genetic modification", it's "genetic selection", and that's what humanity has done for all domestics species since the beginning of times.

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Re:Are Domestic and Wild Salmon Still the Same Species? by wcameron on Friday November 27, 2015 @08:24AM (#10637170)
Actually, they are being genetically modified: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AquAdvantage_salmon
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Re:Are Domestic and Wild Salmon Still the Same Species? by littletimmy on Friday November 27, 2015 @08:27AM (#10637191)
No, it is genetic modification.

Think of it as beauty modification. Breed good looking man, with good looking woman, you select for a good looking child. On the other hand, take an ugly child put it under a knife and through plastic surgery you modify for a beautiful child. That's the difference between genetic modification and genetic selection. Genetic selection has a long history, genetic modification does not.

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Re:Are Domestic and Wild Salmon Still the Same Species? by corin_ on Friday November 27, 2015 @08:51AM (#10637274)
Your example of plastic surgery is definitively not genetic modification. Just modification.
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Re:Are Domestic and Wild Salmon Still the Same Species? by littletimmy on Friday November 27, 2015 @09:07AM (#10637339)
Yes. It is called an analogy.
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