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animal breeding plant breeding artificial insemination inbreeding selective breeding hybridization outbreeding linebreeding progeny selection pure-line selection genecentre origins of agriculture

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Dorothy Leib Harrison Wood Eustis

Dorothy Leib Harrison Wood Eustis

American dog breeder and trainer

Juan Belmonte.

Juan Belmonte

Spanish bullfighter