Quotes About Artificial Selection

#1. One of the more interesting stories in pig evolution during domestication concerns the culture-specific nature of this artificial selection, most notably the black coloration characteristic of Chinese breeds.

Anonymous

#2. Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human betterment.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

#3. What may be less familiar is the idea that the evolution of the conventions of our language might involve what Charles Darwin called "artificial selection.

Daniel Cloud

#4. If artificial selection can make such major changes in so short a period of time, what must natural selection, working over billions of years, be capable of? The answer is all the beauty and diversity of the biological world. Evolution is a fact, not a theory.

Carl Sagan

#5. You can't save the world if you can't pay the rent.

Morton Blackwell

#6. I know I burn for you.Even in my sleep, the sleep of our people where there can be no thought,I burn for you.

Christine Feehan

#7. Sound continues to be a mystery to me, in that one could create infinite songs focusing on the same subject, but depending on the melody, instrument choice, minor or major key, time signature, etc., each song could elicit an entirely different response.

Josh Garrels

#8. There are a lot of things to my game I can still improve, but everyone can.

Caroline Wozniacki

#9. No seed shall perish which the soul hath sown.

John Addington Symonds

#10. Darwin called such a process artificial, as opposed to natural, selection, but from the flower's point of view, this is a distinction without a difference: individual plants in which a trait desired by either bees or Turks occurred wound up with more offspring.

Michael Pollan

#11. I saw no reason why other nations should tell Central Americans how to solve their problems.

Oscar Arias

#12. Even if it's a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.

Gary Owen

#13. Boiled down, isn't love just a form of vanity? You know, the wish to be adored. To be the absolute center for someone else.

Carol Shields

#14. The only satisfactory thing about death is that our knowledge about it is unsatisfactory.

Raheel Farooq

#15. If a choice is given to us between being mortal and being immortal, you will find no one in the group of mortals!

Mehmet Murat Ildan