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Unnatural Selection (Hardcover)
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Unnatural Selection (Hardcover)
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A lavishly illustrated look at how evolution plays out in selective
breeding Unnatural Selection is a stunningly illustrated book about
selective breeding--the ongoing transformation of animals at the
hand of man. More important, it's a book about selective breeding
on a far, far grander scale-a scale that encompasses all life on
Earth. We'd call it evolution. A unique fusion of art, science, and
history, this book celebrates the 150th anniversary of Charles
Darwin's monumental work The Variation of Animals and Plants under
Domestication, and is intended as a tribute to what Darwin might
have achieved had he possessed that elusive missing piece to the
evolutionary puzzle-the knowledge of how individual traits are
passed from one generation to the next. With the benefit of a
century and a half of hindsight, Katrina van Grouw explains
evolution by building on the analogy that Darwin himself
used-comparing the selective breeding process with natural
selection in the wild, and, like Darwin, featuring a multitude of
fascinating examples. This is more than just a book about pets and
livestock, however. The revelation of Unnatural Selection is that
identical traits can occur in all animals, wild and domesticated,
and both are governed by the same evolutionary principles. As van
Grouw shows, animals are plastic things, constantly changing. In
wild animals the changes are usually too slow to see-species appear
to stay the same. When it comes to domesticated animals, however,
change happens fast, making them the perfect model of evolution in
action. Suitable for the lay reader and student, as well as the
more seasoned biologist, and featuring more than four hundred
breathtaking illustrations of living animals, skeletons, and
historical specimens, Unnatural Selection will be enjoyed by anyone
with an interest in natural history and the history of evolutionary
thinking.
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