artificial selection

noun

Etymology

Coined by Charles Darwin in 1859 in his book On the Origin of Species.

Definitions

  1. Intervention by humans in the breeding of plants or animals in order to preserve selected…

    Intervention by humans in the breeding of plants or animals in order to preserve selected genetic traits.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for artificial selection. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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