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