Made to Order : : The Designing of Animals / / Margaret E. Derry.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Derry, Margaret E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)

Animal breeding has been complicated by persisting factors across species, cultures, geography, and time. In Made to Order, Margaret E. Derry explains these factors and other breeding concerns in relation to both animals and society in North America and Europe over the past three centuries. Made to Order addresses how breeding methodology evolved, what characterized the aims of breeding, and the way structures were put in place to regulate the occupation. Illustrated by case studies on important farm animals and companion species, the book presents a synthetic overview of livestock breeding as a whole. It gives considerable emphasis to genetics and animal breeding in the post-1960 period, the relationship between environmental and improvement breeding, and regulation of breeding as seen through pedigrees. In doing so, Made to Order shows how studying the ancient human practice of animal breeding can illuminate the ways in which human thinking, theorizing, and evolving characterize our interactions with all-natural processes.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- SECTION ONE How to Breed Animals: Theory and Method, Eighteenth to Twenty-First Century -- Chapter One. Animal Breeding Practices and Methods from Roman Times to 1900 -- Chapter Two. Mendelism, Quantitative Genetics, and Animal Breeding, 1900–2000 -- Chapter Three. Animal Breeding in the Age of Molecular Genetics, Genomics, and Epigenetics, 1990–2020 -- SECTION TWO What to Breed For: The Many Aims of Selection -- Chapter Four. Specialization for Purpose and Animal Breeding -- Chapter Five. Implications of Breeding for Colour -- Chapter Six. Breeding for Authenticity -- SECTION THREE Orchestrating Breeding: Pedigrees and Trade -- Chapter Seven. Pedigree versus No Pedigree and the Market Value of Animals -- Chapter Eight. The Effects of Pedigrees on International Trade -- Final Remarks -- Glossary -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography of Useful Sources -- Index