[gore3000]

"Evolution" was in one sentence

Yup, at the end and in conclusion. Rice did not evolve - period. It has been perfected into a better more productive food source by human engineering. That is not evolution of any kind, it is human design that has wrought those changes, not chance.

[stands2reason]

You fail to understand the definition of "evolve". Just because you want to tailor that word to mean only what you think it means does not make it so.

[lizma]

The world "evolution" just means a process of change in a certain direction.
Whether it was done by humans or not, the definition of the word doesn't change.

[Ichneumon]

Rice did not evolve - period. It has been perfected into a better more productive food source by human engineering. That is not evolution of any kind, it is human design that has wrought those changes, not chance.

Unless you're going to try to tell us that mankind was whipping up specialized DNA sequences and using plasmids to insert them into the rice genome 10,000+ years ago, "chance" in the form of fortuitous mutations most certainly *was* the agent of novel features in rice varieties, and the fact that men liked certain kinds and planted them more than the other kinds doesn't make this any less a classic example of evolution.

Selective breeding is still selection, and any time there's selection acting upon variation of reproductive entities, you've got 100% real evolution occurring.