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What is selective breeding?

What is selective breeding? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The practice of breeding the best specimens of a given organism to encourage certain features.
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His enduring fame, or infamy, rests on eugenics, which means, crudely, the selective breeding of humans.
Through selective breeding the Bedouins developed an Arab horse which was tough and yet beautiful.
It is important to remember that each breed of dog has its own unique qualities, reinforced by hundreds of years of selective breeding.
In other words, the colour may be as much the result of selective breeding as of ancient purity.
With selective breeding, the investigator can shape behavior to reflect specific features or symptoms of a mental disorder.
Thus, the modern English setter was developed through selective breeding during the 19th century.

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