Book ID: CBB000502123

Industrializing Organisms: Introducing Evolutionary History (2004)

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Scranton, Philip (Author)
Schrepfer, Susan R. (Author)


Routledge


Publication Date: 2004
Physical Details: ix + 275 pp.; ill.; bib.; index
Language: English

Description On the way that humans use artificial selection to reshape organisms for their own needs: from warhorses to featherless chickens.


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Review Ritvo, Harriet (2005) Review of "Industrializing Organisms: Introducing Evolutionary History". Environmental History (p. 546). unapi

Review Marcus, Alan I. (2005) Review of "Industrializing Organisms: Introducing Evolutionary History". Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences (p. 380). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Brad Bolman
Fasolo, Aldo
Bernardi, Massimo
Antonella Tramacere
Menegon, Michele
Bellati, Adriana
Journals
Journal of the History of Biology
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Science as Culture
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Archives of Natural History
Publishers
Armando
Northwestern University
University of Nebraska Press
University of California Press
Routledge
Hill & Wang
Concepts
Biology
Evolution
Human-animal relationships
Animal genetics
Animal experimentation
Genetics
People
Darwin, Charles Robert
Spencer, Herbert
Mendel, Gregor Johann
Mayr, Ernst
Gurney, Edmund
Garner, Richard Lynch
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
18th century
Early modern
Places
United States
Great Britain
Spain
Japan
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