artificial selection

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

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

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artificial selection

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

selective breeding

natural selection sexual selection

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