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He "invented", or maybe more appropriately, innovated in the field of livestock selective breeding. Selective breeding is where you aim to control the traits which are passed on to later generations.

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he helped alot by giving the new bread of sheep :)

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Robert Bakewell set out to improve the breed of sheep and oxen by experimentation. He was the first to establish the trade of ram-letting on a large scale helping to improve farming.

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The importance in Robert Bakewell's invention of selective breeding is that by mating two animals with the best genetic traits, this brought the best of the baby. If you breed the two most healthiest and biggest sheep, there will be a good chance that the baby sheep will be healthy and a big sheep too. :)