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Darwin's artificial selection as an experiment.
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It is argued that ASN should be conceived as a multifaceted experiment, and the experiment conception should help us make sense of Darwin's comments regarding the "monstrous" nature of domestic breeds traditionally considered to be problematic.About:
This article is published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences.The article was published on 2006-03-01. It has received 10 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Darwinism & Darwin (ADL).read more
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Missing concepts in natural selection theory reconstructions
TL;DR: The goal of this paper is to give an explication of the concept of ecological fitness by providing a reconstruction of the theory of natural selection in which this concept was framed, that is, based on the way the theory was put to use in Darwin's main texts.
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Domestication through the Centuries: Darwins Ideas and Dmitry Belyaevs Long-Term Experiment in Silver Foxes
TL;DR: The idea of the seleccion for mansedumbre (tameness) originates from the work of Darwin this article, who considered the domesticization of zorros silvestres (Vulpes vulpes) as ''one grand experiment'' in evolucion.
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Darwin, artificial selection, and poverty.
TL;DR: It is argued that the processes of evolutionary selection are becoming increasingly artificial, a trend that goes against the belief in a purely natural selection process claimed by Darwin's natural selection theory.
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Wallace’s and Darwin’s natural selection theories
Santiago Ginnobili,Daniel Blanco +1 more
TL;DR: It is shown that the theory of natural selection does not appear in exactly the same manner in the writings of each of its alleged co-discoverers, and while the authors find the same fundamental elements in both works, even in Darwin’s early texts, they discern a more complex unifying and ramified structure than the one they find in Wallace's Ternate manuscript.
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DNA footprints of livestock domestication and evolutionary history
TL;DR: The understanding of all changes occurring following domestication and anthropogenic selection may help in understanding natural selection and molecular evolution occurring in all living organisms.
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The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
TL;DR: In this paper, secondary sexual characters of fishes, amphibians and reptiles are presented. But the authors focus on the secondary sexual characteristics of fishes and amphibians rather than the primary sexual characters.
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The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication
TL;DR: On the Origin of Species (OOS) as mentioned in this paper is the seminal work of evolutionary biology, which is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century scientific investigation; it is a key text in the development of Darwin's own thought and of the wider discipline of evolution biology.
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Evolution from molecules to men
TL;DR: The topics discussed here range from the history of the development of evolutionary thought, through current problems in molecular evolution and the evolution of whole organisms, to evolution of behaviour, sociobiology and man's place in evolution.