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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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Resistance to sleeping sickness is one trait that potentially could spread through selective breeding.
In other words, the colour may be as much the result of selective breeding as of ancient purity.
Thus, the modern English setter was developed through selective breeding during the 19th century.
Moreover, selective breeding has been for fur characteristics, rather than for domestication.
It is even at work when a new type of dog is created through selective breeding.
His enduring fame, or infamy, rests on eugenics, which means, crudely, the selective breeding of humans.

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