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Industrializing Organisms: Introducing Evolutionary History (Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture)

By Susan Schrepfer , Philip Scranton

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2003
ISBN
9780415945486, 0415945488, 041594547X, 9780415945479
LCC
S494.5.B563 I53 2003
Open Library ID
OL22562717M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2942221 bytes)
Series
Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture
Edition
1
Pages
286\286
Topic
Business
Library
duansci.com
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-05-17 00:23:50

Description

The book's papers cover applied evolution. Where humans have aggressively used various breeding methods to turn out new generations of plants and animals better suited for our needs. Ever since agriculture was invented, this has been happening. But it is only recently that evolution has given us a deeper understanding of human efforts.

The examples covered in the book are diverse. Wheat, sugar cane, horses, cows, dogs, chickens and pigs. In the case of horses, the cited example was for war. So this petered out after the 19th century. But the other examples are ongoing. Clearly seen for chickens and pigs. The modern farming methods for these animals are really factories, that turn inputs like water and grain into meat as efficiently as possible.

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