Masterminding Nature explains why animal breeders continued to use eighteenth-century techniques well into the twentieth century, why the chicken industry was the first to use genetics in its breeding programs, and why it was the dairy cattle industry that embraced quantitative genetics and artificial insemination in the 1970s, as well as answering many other questions. Following the story right up to the present, the book concludes with an insightful analysis of today’s complex relationships between biology, industry, and ethics.
Masterminding Nature explains why animal breeders continued to use eighteenth-century techniques well into the twentieth century, why the chicken industry was the first to use genetics in its breeding programs, and why it was the dairy cattle industry that embraced quantitative genetics and artificial insemination in the 1970s, as well as answering many other questions. Following the story right up to the present, the book concludes with an insightful analysis of today’s complex relationships between biology, industry, and ethics.
Masterminding Nature: The Breeding of Animals, 1750-2010
320Masterminding Nature: The Breeding of Animals, 1750-2010
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ISBN-13: | 9781442626522 |
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Publisher: | University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division |
Publication date: | 03/18/2015 |
Pages: | 320 |
Product dimensions: | 6.05(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d) |