Some features of a species appear to be totally for survival but other features, to my untrained eye, appear to represent the culture of the species, growing out of the millenia of what looks or acts to motivate selection for reproduction (cosmetic). Then there is our imposition of our own culture on another species like breeding dogs or hybridizing plants, some attributes for survival such as expanding the range where a plant can survive like making a banana hardy so as to survive in a larger range of climates.
Nature loves experimentation of any type but it must survive the test of time and most innovations, no matter how the change came about, do not (that is no reason for not experimenting). So if you want an apple that doesn't turn brown and get the species to perform that way you are participating in the grand experiment with not the slightest inckling of what's to come, like so many, many experiments. To conserve and preserve, without change, is the exception and not the rule: a temporary equilibrium until the next change upsets everything.
Fun to let my thoughts run rampant in the vacuum that is my own experience...
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