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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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Thus, by a simple method of artificial selection, the silkworm industry has been rescued from what threatened to be a collapse.
However, genetic differentiations may also be due to artificial selection, since B. davidii was cultivated as an ornamental plant.
But this would mean a return to artificial selection in its most primitive and sanguinary form.
A similar explanation of types may be given regarding animals modified by artificial selection.
Perhaps a study of the artificial selection of livestock would provide a clue.
Following on from The Blind Watchmaker it deploys computer models of artificial selection.

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