Made to Order : : The Designing of Animals / / Margaret E. Derry.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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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