artificial selection

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Even worse, the ones that weren’t killed right away will be the hardiest among them, and so you may be performing your own personal experiment in artificial selection of the toughest bugs, an experiment that could leave you with an antibiotic-resistant disease.

From Salon

"Nature is an amazing chemist, and her repertoire now includes breaking bonds in siloxanes previously thought to evade attack by living organisms," says Frances Arnold, the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry at Caltech and winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her pioneering work in directed evolution, a method for engineering enzymes and other proteins using the principles of artificial selection.

From Science Daily

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

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

From Reuters

When animals are domesticated, as the dog was, their traits change; an artificial selection occurs over many generations, which, in the case of the dog, probably happened through unconscious selection bias among ancient humans and their canid hangers-on.

From Salon