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, humans have trained animals to be more successful in completing tasks that the humans want completed.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
The deft combination of variation and artificial selection, Darwin knew, could produce extraordinary results.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
