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Like Engend'ring Like - Heredity and Animal Breeding in Early Modern England (Paperback, New Ed)
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Like Engend'ring Like - Heredity and Animal Breeding in Early Modern England (Paperback, New Ed)
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Robert Bakewell of Dishley Grange in Leicestershire is usually
regarded as the founding father of modern farm livestock breeding,
and is thought of as one of the legendary pioneers of the
agricultural revolution in late eighteenth-century Britain.
However, Bakewell was by no means the first English breeder to
practise deliberate selection of desirable qualities in his
livestock. This book sets out to examine the ideas and techniques
of earlier generations of agricultural and sporting improvers in
the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and to demonstrate the
earlier sources of many of Bakewell's opinions and procedures. It
reviews the relationships which may have existed between the ideas
of practical animal breeders and those of philosophical naturalists
with theoretical ideas about heredity. It also touches on the
question of whether the stimulus for the development of new stock
was provided by demand for different products or by a desire to
obtain knowledge about the heredity of domestic animals.
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