Artificial-selection Sentence Examples

artificial-selection

  • The variations which have been perpetuated and intensified by artificial selection are, with the exception of those of the dog, greater than have been induced in any other mammal.

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  • Testing constraints by artificial selection - direct and correlated responses in butterfly eyespots and in vertebrate digits.

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  • He pointed to the changes wrought on domesticated organisms by the artificial selection of similar variations, and drew the inference that there must be parallel occurrences under wild nature.

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