Genetic improvement of farmed animals
Genetic improvement of farmed animals
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养殖动物的遗传改良
DOI：
10.1079/9781789241723.0001
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2021
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Simm G
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动物的大小、形状和颜色多种多样。几个世纪以来，为什么会这样，一直困扰着许多伟大的思想家。今天，大多数生物学家相信，我们养殖的、作为宠物饲养的、在野外观察到的或在屏幕上看到的物种，以及那些现已灭绝的物种，都是通过自然选择的过程进化而来的。尽管 19 世纪的几位自然学家和哲学家贡献了一些想法，但查尔斯·达尔文通常被认为在 1838 年提出了一个有凝聚力的自然选择理论。他后来在他的著作《论自然选择》中解释了这一点。
Animals come in an incredible variety of sizes, shapes and colours. Just why this is so has occupied many great minds over the centuries. Most biologists today believe that the species which we farm, keep as pets, observe in the wild or see on our screens, and those now extinct, evolved by the process of natural selection. Although several 19th century naturalists and philosophers contributed ideas, Charles Darwin is usually credited with putting together a cohesive theory of natural selection in 1838. He later explained this in his book On the