species-selection

Updated: May 4, 2025

For the sake of clearness we might designate the last named process with the term of intra-specific selection, and it is obvious that this term is applicable both to natural and to artificial selection. Having previously dealt with species-selection at sufficient length, we may now confine ourselves to the consideration of the intra-specific selection process.

Hugo de Vries - Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation

This selection of species or species-selection was the work of Le Couteur and Patrick Shirreff, and is now in general use in practice where it has received the name of variety-testing. This clear and unequivocal term however, can hardly be included under the head of natural selection.

Hugo de Vries - Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation