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Selective breeding

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noun

The intentional breeding of organisms with desirable trait in an attempt to produce offspring with similar desirable characteristics or with improved traits.


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It involves breeding techniques such as inbreeding, linebreeding and outcrossing.


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Re: The Colin Leslie Dean species paradox

... - but remove that stable state, introduce genetic variation, change selective pressures and the lines between species will likely become blurred. ... and the species was clearly defineable. Introduce domestication and breeding by humans, and now we have many lineages of Canis whose specific ...

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by AstusAleator
Sat Jul 18, 2009 12:46 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: The Colin Leslie Dean species paradox
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Views: 5862

Speciation among primates and hominids

... still stands, currently the fastest way to make new species would be selective breeding until we get better in genetic engineering and simply start producing new species.

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by biohazard
Tue Jul 07, 2009 6:08 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Speciation among primates and hominids
Replies: 13
Views: 848

Speciation among primates and hominids

... dogs and domestic animals, for example, one can clearly see that by breeding one can increase the speed of speciation manyfold. It has taken ... the quickest way to make new species out of primates would probably be selective breeding (at the moment, genetic engineering is likely to speeden ...

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by biohazard
Mon Jul 06, 2009 8:02 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Speciation among primates and hominids
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Views: 848

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isnt human reproduction closer to selective breeding than natural selection ? good looking people mate with other good looking people . ugly people ...

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by alextemplet
Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:40 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Future Human Evolution
Replies: 44
Views: 9470

Future Human Evolution

isnt human reproduction closer to selective breeding than natural selection ? good looking people mate with other good looking people . ugly people ...

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by Tramadolian
Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:29 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Future Human Evolution
Replies: 44
Views: 9470
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