Synonyms for artificial selection

Grammar : Noun

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Définition of artificial selection

As in natural selection : noun evolutionary theory

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This is the process of artificial selection as carried on by man.
Extract from : « The Meaning of Evolution » by Samuel Christian Schmucker

If art by artificial selection, why not Nature by natural selection?
Extract from : « Evolution » by Joseph Le Conte

Artificial selection begins with the domestication of animals.
Extract from : « The Arena » by Various

Moreover, their stock was actually strengthened by artificial selection.
Extract from : « The Color Line » by William Benjamin Smith

Thus, by a simple method of artificial selection, the silkworm industry has been rescued from what threatened to be a collapse.
Extract from : « The Roof of France » by Matilda Betham-Edwards

But this would mean a return to artificial selection in its most primitive and sanguinary form.
Extract from : « Anarchism » by E. V. Zenker

To artificial selection we chiefly owe all the many races or varieties of our domesticated animals and plants.
Extract from : « Elementary Zoology, Second Edition » by Vernon L. Kellogg

A similar explanation of types may be given regarding animals modified by artificial selection.
Extract from : « On the Ethics of Naturalism » by William Ritchie Sorley

But as artificial selection has lengthened the wings in some instances, why may it not have shortened them in others?
Extract from : « Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? » by William Platt Ball

Artificial selection appears to enlarge or diminish used parts or disused parts with equal facility.
Extract from : « Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? » by William Platt Ball

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