Made to Order: The Designing of Animals

Made to Order: The Designing of Animals, 1, 2022 is a comprehensive biology reference published by Other Publisher. Description By Margaret E. Derry Animal breeding has been complicated by persisting factors across species, cultures, geography, and time.

Key Features

- Animal breeding has been complicated by persisting factors across species, cultures, geography, and time
- In Made to Order, Margaret E
- Derry explains these factors and other breeding concerns in relation to both animals and society in North America and Europe over the past three centuries
- Made to Order addresses how breeding methodology evolved, what characterized the aims of breeding, and the way structures were put in place to regulate the occupation
- Illustrated by case studies on important farm animals and companion species, the book presents a synthetic overview of livestock breeding as a whole
- It gives considerable emphasis to genetics and animal breeding in the post-1960 period, the relationship between environmental and improvement breeding, and regulation of breeding…
- In doing so, Made to Order shows how studying the ancient human practice of animal breeding can illuminate the ways in which human thinking, theorizing, and evolving characterize…

Product Details

Publisher: Other Publisher
Edition: 1
Published Year: 2022
Format: Publisher PDF
File Size: 1.9 MB
ISBN: 978-1487541606