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Author Topic:   Artificial Selection - Is the term simply convenient?
Tangle
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Message 15 of 37 (735904)
08-27-2014 5:22 PM


Probably more precise to use the phrase anthropogenic selection when referring to human intervention in the 'natural' selection process.

Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android
"Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
- Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.

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