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Featured Article Artificial selection, in contrast to natural selection, refers to intentional selection of characteristics. Humans have been exploiting genetics and heredity for centuries to increase production and profitability from agriculture. Crops and livestock are selected for their yield, still by differential reproduction, but this time because farmers choose which individual animals are allowed to reproduce, and which seeds are sown for the next crop. By choosing carefully the phenotypes we desire we have made tall cereal crops which produce lots of grain, fat cows which produce lots of milk and meat, sheep which produce lots of wool, strong horses and chickens which produce lots of eggs. Artificial selection has been taking place for 10,000 years, since the first farmers of the fertile crescent....continue reading |
In the news18 April: Swedish researchers find a spruce tree that is over 8000 years old. [1] 20 February: Homo sapiens may have interbreed with Homo erectus (subscription required). [2] 13 February: Biologists have recently discovered that junk RNA may have played an important role in vertebrate evolution. [3] 10 February: Scientists find sparrow-sized pterodactyl fossil in China. [4] 9 February: Biologists have recently discovered giant sea spiders and a number of other large creatures in the Antarctic oceans. [5] |
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