Beauty or Statistics: Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900-2000 - Hardcover

Theunissen, Bert

 
9781487507008: Beauty or Statistics: Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900-2000
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1487507003 ISBN 13: 9781487507008
Verlag: UNIV OF TORONTO PR, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

In the 1970s, scientists claimed that farm animal breeding was finally evolving from an art into a science. In their view, the switch to scientific breeding was as inevitable as the ongoing process of agricultural modernization. However, the art-to-science scenario is too simplistic to do justice to the complex dynamic that characterized the transformation of the field.

The livestock breeds that take centre stage in this book - dairy cattle, chickens, pigs, sheep, and horses - were products of the twentieth century. The methods used by breeders to improve their animals, however, were much older. Tracing the history of practical stockbreeding, the role of Mendelism in scientific breeding, and the emergence of quantitative genetics, Beauty or Statistics shows that the story of the scientific modernization of livestock breeding can be more fruitfully analysed from the perspective of changing cultures of breeding, taking practical, commercial, normative, and aesthetic considerations into account.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Bert Theunissen is the director of the Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, and the Chair of the History of Science Program at Utrecht University.

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Verlag
UNIV OF TORONTO PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1487507003
ISBN 13 
9781487507008
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
288
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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Breda
4831 GR
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