Unnatural Selection /

Unnatural Selection / / Katrina van Grouw.

A lavishly illustrated look at how evolution plays out in selective breedingUnnatural 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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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van Grouw, Katrina,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 150 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART I. Origin
  • Chapter 1 - Problems with Pigeonholes
  • Chapter 2 - Plastic Animals
  • Chapter 3 - Darwin's Universal Law
  • PART II. Inheritance
  • Chapter 4 - Colored Liquid; Colored Glass
  • Chapter 5 - A Question of Dominance
  • Chapter 6 - "Natura non Facit Saltus"
  • PART III. Variation
  • Chapter 7 - The "M" Word
  • Chapter 8 - Common Threads
  • Chapter 9 - Terms & Conditions Apply
  • PART IV. Selection
  • Chapter 10 - Facets 0f Fitness
  • Chapter 11 - Islands of All Kinds
  • Chapter 12 - Between Dog & Wolf
  • Selected Reading
  • Index

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