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The mystery of artificial selection
Things have been quiet on The Hump for the last week because I was on holiday in one of the most beautiful places on earth (not counting here), close by the second biggest natural harbour in the world. You guess. I caught the end of a piece on TV there that led me to further reading, about Robert Bakewell, the father of selective breeding of livestock.
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