artificial selection
Biology
noun
The development or maintenance of distinct variants of a species by human intervention, such that each successive generation is produced by the deliberate breeding, or the preferential reproduction, of individuals which have particular desired characteristics; contrasted with natural selection.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Charles Darwin (1809–1882), naturalist, geologist, and originator of the theory of natural selection.
- red prussiate
- red ptarmigan
- Red Queen
- Red Queen hypothesis
- redraft
- red rag
- red ragger
- red-raggish
- red rain
- red raspberry
- red rattle
- redraw
- red reflex
- red republic
- red republican
- red republicanism
- re-dress
- redress
- redressable
- redressal
- redresser
- redressive
- redressment
- redress the balance
- red revolution