"As described here that is not selection, rather culling of the lower
producers."

If that is simply culling man has never done selection on anything.  Breeding from the best performers or the best looking from some arbitrary standard on what the plant or animal should look like is how everything we grow or raise has been developed.  You do this by culling all the outliers.  To me selection and culling are two sides of exactly the same coin and accomplish exactly the same end.  Today, in a few species, we can select a lot better by using DNA sequencing to decide which to cull.

Dick




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