What is artifical selection?

What is artificial selection? How does it differ from natural selection?
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Artificial selection   
Modification of a species by human intervention so that certain desirable traits are represented in successive generations. The different breeds of domestic dogs and the large ears of maize corn are products of artificial selection.

This is the opposite of natural selection.

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