Practices
Selective Breeding
Also Known As Artificial selection
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Choosing which plants and animals get to reproduce, generation after generation, until the species itself is remade. Every crop and livestock entity in this atlas is its product. Robert Bakewell made it a deliberate method in 18th century England, and Darwin opened On the Origin of Species with it as the model for natural selection.
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Practice Class OriginImplicit in all domestication; made a systematic method by Robert Bakewell and contemporaries in 18th century England 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Cattle, Livestock Robert Bakewell's systematic selective breeding in the 18th century was worked out on Longhorn cattle as well as sheep.
Sheep, Livestock Bakewell's New Leicester (Dishley Leicester) sheep is the founding example of systematic selective breeding for meat conformation.
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Bakewell made it a deliberate, systematic method; the practice itself is as old as domestication
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