artificial selection

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The team used a population of T. castaneum that had undergone artificial selection for death-feigning duration for more than 40 generations.

From Science Daily • Oct. 2, 2023

Each breed produces a winner, representing the best of what artificial selection can create from the descendants of wolves.

From Reuters • May 10, 2023

But modern livestock farming has involved millennia of artificial selection and is far from what most people would consider natural.

From Salon • Apr. 10, 2023

In artificial selection, nature provides the inherited variations, and humans select those variants they find useful.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2018

What is necessary is a program of artificial selection and genetic engineering of dark plants—perhaps lichens—that could survive the much more severe Martian environment.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan