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Meanings of artificial selection in English

Russian
искусственный отбор
Portuguese
selecção artificial
Spanish
reproducción selectiva
Catalan
selecció artificial
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Process by which humans use animal and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits.

      искусственный отбор
      Usage of artificial selection in English
      1
      Under artificial selection they are deliberately chosen out from among the rest.
      Darwin and Modern Science
      2
      This is artificial selection, and is best exemplified in the experiments with pigeons.
      The Fertility of the Unfit
      3
      A day is coming when artificial selection among human beings will be obligatory.
      Atlantis
      4
      Through artificial selection, for example, breeders have changed the genomes of crops and livestock.
      Is Human Nature Obsolete?
      5
      Is there anything in Nature which in the long-run may answer to artificial selection?
      Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism
      6
      Reassuring as it was, the analogy between natural and artificial selection was far from perfect.
      The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication
      7
      Like the sturdy little Shetland pony, this dog has not been made small by artificial selection.
      Dogs and All about Them
      8
      To my mind, however, artificial selection is truly a part of the whole process of natural selection.
      The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Basis and Its Scope
      9
      Classical genetic methods such as artificial selection of rodents for high or low anxiety are being employed.
      Pubmed
      10
      Conchomorphs: computer-generated shells shaped by artificial selection
      The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
      11
      Overpopulation, at least until artificial selection arrives, is not an evil, but a good in human society.
      Sociology and Modern Social Problems
      12
      Why, if artificial selection is capable of reducing it, didn't natural selection do the same job long ago?
      The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
      13
      After long-term natural and artificial selection, donkeys now exhibit a variety of body sizes and production performance values.
      Pubmed
      14
      The genetic bases of demographic changes and artificial selection underlying domestication are of great interest in evolutionary biology.
      Pubmed
      15
      Even with artificial selection, however, some overpopulation would be necessary for the working of any scheme of selection.
      Sociology and Modern Social Problems
      16
      This phenomenon can be the result of artificial selection or gene flow from other sources into the domesticated population.
      Pubmed
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