Book ID: CBB001422601

Masterminding Nature: The Breeding of Animals, 1750--2010 (2015)

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Derry, Margaret Elsinor (Author)


University of Toronto Press
Publication date: 2015
Language: English


Publication Date: 2015
Physical Details: 320 pp.; bibl.

In Masterminding Nature, Margaret Derry examines the evolution of modern animal breeding from the invention of improved breeding methodologies in eighteenth-century England to the application of molecular genetics in the 1980s and 1990s. A clear and concise introduction to the science and practice of artificial selection, Derry's book puts the history of breeding in its scientific, commercial, and social context. 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.

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Review Ann Norton Greene (2016) Review of "Masterminding Nature: The Breeding of Animals, 1750--2010". Agricultural History (pp. 122-123). unapi

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Review Jennifer Adlem (2016) Review of "Masterminding Nature: The Breeding of Animals, 1750--2010". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 126-127). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Alter, Stephen G.
Çakirlar, Canan
Colledge, Sue
Conolly, James
Derry, Margaret Elsinor
Dobney, Keith
Journals
Antiquity
Journal of the History of Biology
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Anthropozoologica
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
History Workshop Journal
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
Stanford University
Yale University
Johns Hopkins University Press
Oxford University Press
Concepts
Animal husbandry
Breeding
Domestication
Heredity
Genetics
Agriculture
People
Backewell, Robert
Darwin, Charles Robert
Hitler, Adolf
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc de
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
20th century, early
21st century
Neolithic period
Places
United States
Great Britain
Germany
Africa
Bohemia
Brazil
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