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The principle of breeding | blogjou

Daniel S. Milo

Good Enough - The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society

p. 61
03 Oct 2023

The principle of breeding


Darwin had celebrated the capacity of ruthless selection to obtain comparativelty minor results: “Lord Rivers, when asked how he succeeded in always having first-rate greyhounds, answered, ‘I breed many, and hang many.’”