In Masterminding Nature, Margaret Derry examines the evolution
of modern animal breeding from the invention of improved breeding
methodologies in eighteenth-century England to the application of
molecular genetics in the 1980s and 1990s. A clear and concise
introduction to the science and practice of artificial selection,
Derry's book puts the history of breeding in its scientific,
commercial, and social context.
Masterminding Nature explains why animal breeders continued to
use eighteenth-century techniques well into the twentieth century,
why the chicken industry was the first to use genetics in its
breeding programs, and why it was the dairy cattle industry that
embraced quantitative genetics and artificial insemination in the
1970s, as well as answering many other questions. Following the
story right up to the present, the book concludes with an
insightful analysis of today's complex relationships between
biology, industry, and ethics.
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