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Beauty or Statistics: Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900–2000: Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900-2000

Bert Theunissen

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Description:In the 1970s, scientists claimed that farm animal breeding was finally evolving from an art into a science. In their view, the switch to scientific breeding was as inevitable as the ongoing process of agricultural modernization. However, the art-to-science scenario is too simplistic to do justice to the complex dynamic that characterized the transformation of the field.The livestock breeds that take central stage in this book – dairy cattle, chickens, pigs, sheep, and horses – were products of the twentieth century. The methods used by breeders to improve their animals, however, were much older. Tracing the history of practical stockbreeding, the role of Mendelism in scientific breeding, and the emergence of quantitative genetics, Beauty or Statistics shows that the story of the scientific modernization of livestock breeding can be more fruitfully analyzed from the perspective of changing cultures of breeding, taking practical, commercial, normative, and aesthetic considerations into account.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Beauty or Statistics: Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900–2000: Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900-2000. To get started finding Beauty or Statistics: Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900–2000: Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900-2000, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: In the 1970s, scientists claimed that farm animal breeding was finally evolving from an art into a science. In their view, the switch to scientific breeding was as inevitable as the ongoing process of agricultural modernization. However, the art-to-science scenario is too simplistic to do justice to the complex dynamic that characterized the transformation of the field.The livestock breeds that take central stage in this book – dairy cattle, chickens, pigs, sheep, and horses – were products of the twentieth century. The methods used by breeders to improve their animals, however, were much older. Tracing the history of practical stockbreeding, the role of Mendelism in scientific breeding, and the emergence of quantitative genetics, Beauty or Statistics shows that the story of the scientific modernization of livestock breeding can be more fruitfully analyzed from the perspective of changing cultures of breeding, taking practical, commercial, normative, and aesthetic considerations into account.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Beauty or Statistics: Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900–2000: Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900-2000. To get started finding Beauty or Statistics: Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900–2000: Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900-2000, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Beauty or Statistics: Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900–2000: Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900-2000

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