artificial selection

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“Breeds in Europe today are less genetically distinct than the two in prehistory, in that they have a less deep history that doesn’t stretch back thousands of years ,” he added, although he noted artificial selection had led to breeds with particular traits.

From The Guardian

“We know that most complex traits are multigenic, and artificial selection often leads to inadvertent changes while selecting for a set of traits,” Bhadra adds.

From Scientific American

The first genome engineering relied on natural variation and artificial selection through selective breeding.

From Nature

But while breeding, or artificial selection, requires an external agent, natural selection does not.

From The New Yorker

Some combination of these compounds first drew people to wild tea plants, but since then, their relative abundances have probably been shifted by artificial selection.

From Nature