Artificial selection in plants aims to seek enhanced ... the process is just as transformative. Domesticated dogs exploded in variety thanks to selective breeding for size, behavior, and looks.

See what scientists believe about humans' artificial selection pressures on the dog genome. Aa Aa Aa Any dog lover knows that Labrador retrievers are friendly, Dalmatians are hyper, and Australian ...

so they're more similar to each other than they are to most other dogs or cats. What will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI)? Plenty of ...

Dog domestication has prompted some ruff ... “Within the most recent 15,000 years, there is strong evidence that artificial selection is happening throughout human cultures,” says Alex Capaldi ...

Domestication has made cats and dogs more diverse ... evolutionary separation can be overridden by a few decades of artificial selection. In choosing pets that mimic the faces of our own infants ...

"The key difference here is that dogs are not in a natural environment,” Balcarcel said. "They are a function of artificial selection… a very directed selection, evolution under human hands." ...