The gentle, bounteous Nile may well have bred rebelliousness right out of them; one expert suggests that there was no indulging a taste for insurrection in the flat, narrow Nile Valley, which was easy to police, or in the merciless desert immediately beyond, where no sanctuary was to be found.
Now both Ford and Jobs could have bred faster horses or churned out more run-of-the-mill smartphones.
And yet researchers have bred rats who will literally work out for alcohol, bench-pressing a bar repeatedly for a refill long after sober rats have given up.
In other words, in the quest to make ever stronger cannabis, illicit growers may have inadvertently bred out a chemical that protected the mental health of users in the past.
There are, to be sure, highly perfumed modern roses such 'Chrysler Imperial' or 'Fragrant Cloud,' but too often the fragrance has been bred out in the pursuit of blue ribbons.
Their welfare state, financed by Euro-oil, has bred it out of them.
Over centuries, modern agriculture has bred the nutrients out of our food.
In fact, it's in the contract--if I find out an owner has bred his pudelpointer without my permission, he owes me $10,000.
Denmark, though, she added, was one of the countries that had bred that detrimental gene out of their livestock.
Most chickens have had the broody trait bred out to keep them productive.
