Everyone knows Darwin's theory of natural selection, but what about his idea of artificial selection - how humans, not nature, rework natural organisms to meet our needs? This volume brings us to the threshold of the new field of evolutionary history - from the mobilization of war horses in the 19th century to today's engineered plants and animals.
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Susan Schrepfer is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University and Director of the Institute for Secondary Teachers
Philip Scranton is the Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University, and Director of Research at the Hagley Museum and Library.
Philip Scranton is the Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University, and Director of Research at the Hagley Museum and Library.
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This review is from: Industrializing Organisms: Introducing Evolutionary History (Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture) (Paperback)
The book's papers cover applied evolution. Where humans have aggressively used various breeding methods to turn out new generations of plants and animals better suited for our needs. Ever since agriculture was invented, this has been happening. But it is only recently that evolution has given us a deeper understanding of human efforts.
The examples covered in the book are diverse. Wheat, sugar cane, horses, cows, dogs, chickens and pigs. In the case of horses, the cited example was for war. So this petered out after the 19th century. But the other examples are ongoing. Clearly seen for chickens and pigs. The modern farming methods for these animals are really factories, that turn inputs like water and grain into meat as efficiently as possible. Yummy!
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Visitors arriving in nineteenth-century American cities frequently focused on the thriving industries, impressive architecture, and many amenities that marked these bustling metropolises, but often failed to appreciate the complex web of resources supporting these urban spaces. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Visitors arriving in nineteenth-century American cities frequently focused on the thriving industries, impressive architecture, and many amenities that marked these bustling metropolises, but often failed to appreciate the complex web of resources supporting these urban spaces. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
industrial tree improvement, bleeder dogs, industrializing organisms, antibiotic growth effect, canine hemophiliac, hemophilic dogs, hemophilic blood, dairy zones, forest tree improvement, tree improvement programs, provenance testing, human hemophilia, forest tree breeding, forest geneticist, forest genetics, durum varieties, antibiotic feeding, biological innovation, wheat frontier, transgenic trees, new wheat varieties, milk records, breeding organizations, chicken consumption, superior trees Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, World War, Extension Service, Jersey City, Department of Agriculture, Peter Henderson, Great Plains, William Boyd, New Jersey, Damon Catron, Iowa State University, Annual Report, University of North Carolina, Journal of Forestry, Pacific Northwest, Practical Floriculture, American Florist, Half Century of Wheat, Manufacturing Green Gold, Johns Hopkins University Press, North Dakota, Roger Horowitz, Stephen Pemberton, Susan Warren Lanman New!
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