21. Darwin used artificial selection as a springboard to introduce and support the theory of natural selection. 22. Vavilovian mimicry describes weeds that come to share characteristics with a domesticated plant through artificial selection . 23. "' Breeding back "'is a form of artificial selection by the deliberate selective breeding of extinct. 24. Narrow-sense heritability has been used also for predicting generally the results of "'artificial selection " '. 25. A mixed-breed, mutt or mongrel is a dog that is not the result of artificial selection . 26. Furthermore, the evolutionary stresses of predation is far different than the evolutionary stresses of artificial selection . 27. In beetles, artificial selection experiments have shown that there is heritable variation for length of death-feigning. 28. To begin with, artificial selection isn't really quite the same thing as natural selection after all. 29. Nevertheless, people were able to develop domestic breeds of animals as well as crops through artificial selection . 30. This is due to Biruni describing the idea of artificial selection and then applying it to nature:
