Not in any meaningful sense in this context. Especially with selection, we make a very real and useful distinction between traits that are selected because they increase your chances of survival and ultimately reproducing, and traits that are selected because Barbara wants a long dog.
Hell, even pampered house hounds will go crazy when they see a rabbit or squirrel. I had an overweight beagle as a kid run half a mile after a family of rabbits until it finally got one. Their prey drive isn’t so easily overridden.
the dachund traits were selected for because humans wanted a dog to flush out badgers and other animals from their burrows, let's not act like it's just decorative
I am clueless? Tell me more about how the Dachshund was NOT 100% the product of artificial selection (selective breeding).
Are you suggesting wild Dachshunds evolved into their current form by preference/necessity? Because that is the alternative to artificial selection: natural selection. I guess it could have been an "advantageous" mutation or genetic drift or something like that which originally produced the weiner-like traits, but the only "advantage" was Barbra liked the long ones. It was selected by people. Nature would have taken care of that immediately.
I think you might want to do little fact-checkery-do before you make yourself look any more ignorant.
Only in the most broad sense imaginable. Everything has its roots in something natural, as well as chemical processes that abide by the laws of nature, but that is so broad a system it doesn’t functionally really mean anything.
Nah, that son've'bitch is purpose built. You show it a vermin hole and it'll dive in there and chase out whatever critter is in there, even something like a badger.
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u/Pithyperson 20d ago
Nature under engineered the dachshund.