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Selective breeding (also called artificial selection) is the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits (characteristics) by choosing which typically animal or plant males and females will sexually reproduce and have offspring together.
Wood & Orel 2005, "Scientific Breeding in Central Europe during the Early Nineteenth Century: Background to Mendel's Later Work", Journal of the History of Biology 38, p. 251; Cobb 2006, "Heredity before genetics: a history" Wood, R. J. & Orel, V. Genetic Prehistory in Selective Breeding: a Prelude to Mendel (Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, 2001)
The racial ideology of Nazism placed the biological improvement of the German people by selective breeding of "Nordic" or "Aryan" traits at its center. [1] These policies were used to justify the involuntary sterilization and mass-murder of those deemed "undesirable".
Slave breeding was the practice in slave states of the United States of slave owners systematically forcing slaves to have children to increase their wealth. [1] It included coerced sexual relations between enslaved men and women or girls, forced pregnancies of enslaved women and girls due to forced inter inbreeding with fellow slaves in hopes ...
Selective infanticide seems to have been as widespread in Ancient Rome [18] as it had already long been in Athens. [ 19 ] Furthermore, according to Tacitus ( c. 56 – c. 120 ), a Roman of the Imperial Period , the Germanic tribes of his day killed any member of their community they deemed cowardly, unwarlike or "stained with abominable vices ...
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The first cat shows, held at the end of the 19 th century, ignited a craze for cat breeding the way dogs were bred, and today there are dozens of specialty breeds, with more being developed all ...
U.S. eugenics poster advocating for the removal of genetic "defectives" such as the insane, "feeble-minded" and criminals, and supporting the selective breeding of "high-grade" individuals, c. 1926. In the Deep South, women's associations played an important role in rallying support for eugenic legal reform.