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The Errors of the American National Academy of Sciences

species. No new
animal species
has ever been
obtained as a re-
sult of animal

breeding. The
reason for this is
not that animal
or plant breed-
ers have been
unable to con-
tinue their artificial se-
lection right to the end,
but that the living things in

question have reached the end of
their genetic limits. The renowned
French zoologist Pierre-Paul Grassé has
stated that artificial selection testifies
against Darwinism:
In spite of the intense pressure generated by
artificial selection [eliminating any parent not
answering the criteria of choice] over whole mil-
lennia, no new species are born. A comparative study
of sera, hemoglobins, blood proteins, interfertility, etc.,
proves that the strains remain the same specific defini-
tion. This is not a matter of opinion or subjective classifi-
cation, but a measurable reality. The fact is that selection gives
tangible form to and gathers together all the varieties a genome is
capable of producing but does not constitute an innovative evolu-
tionary process. 6

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