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Meanings of artificial selection in inglês

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Process by which humans use animal and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits.

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