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What is artificial selection?

What is artificial selection? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (evolutionary theory) Intervention by humans in the breeding of plants or animals in order to preserve selected genetic traits.
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To artificial selection we chiefly owe all the many races or varieties of our domesticated animals and plants.
But this would mean a return to artificial selection in its most primitive and sanguinary form.
Stabilizing selection is often noticeable after artificial selection.
Domestication and artificial selection of livestock have made farm animals dependent on humans.
One can note that the fur of truly longhaired cats, such as Persians, is, most probably a product of a long artificial selection.
Following on from The Blind Watchmaker it deploys computer models of artificial selection.

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