Unnatural Selections

Author : Daylanne K. English
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807855317
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unnatural Selections written by Daylanne K. English and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging conventional constructions of the Harlem Renaissance and American modernism, Daylanne English links writers from both movements to debates about eugenics in the Progressive Era. She argues that, in the 1920s, the form and content of writings b

Author : Gary Larson
Publisher : Sphere
ISBN 13 : 9780751504187
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unnatural Selections written by Gary Larson and published by Sphere. This book was released on 1991 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of cartoons from the Far Side. Other work by the author includes Night of the Crash Test Dummies , In Search of the Far Side and Cows of Our Planet .

Author : Mara Hvistendahl
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459614577
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unnatural Selection written by Mara Hvistendahl and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio for children under four: 163 boys for every 100 girls. These numbers don't seem terribly grim, but in ten years, the skewed sex ratio will pose a colossal challenge. By the time those children reach adulthood, their generation will have twenty-four million more men than women. The prognosis for China's neighbors is no less bleak: Asia now has 163 million females "missing" from its population. Gender imbalance reaches far beyond Asia, affecting Georgia, Eastern Europe, and cities in the U.S. where there are significant immigrant populations. The world, therefore, is becoming increasingly male, and this mismatch is likely to create profound social upheaval. Historically, eras in which there have been an excess of men have produced periods of violent conflict and instability. Mara Hvistendahl has written a stunning, impeccably-researched book that does not flinch from examining not only the consequences of the misbegotten policies of sex selection but Western complicity with them"--

Author : Katrina van Grouw
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400889642
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unnatural Selection written by Katrina van Grouw and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavishly illustrated look at how evolution plays out in selective breeding Unnatural 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 scale that encompasses all life on Earth. We'd call it evolution. A unique fusion of art, science, and history, this book celebrates the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's monumental work The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, and is intended as a tribute to what Darwin might have achieved had he possessed that elusive missing piece to the evolutionary puzzle—the knowledge of how individual traits are passed from one generation to the next. With the benefit of a century and a half of hindsight, Katrina van Grouw explains evolution by building on the analogy that Darwin himself used—comparing the selective breeding process with natural selection in the wild, and, like Darwin, featuring a multitude of fascinating examples. This is more than just a book about pets and livestock, however. The revelation of Unnatural Selection is that identical traits can occur in all animals, wild and domesticated, and both are governed by the same evolutionary principles. As van Grouw shows, animals are plastic things, constantly changing. In wild animals the changes are usually too slow to see—species appear to stay the same. When it comes to domesticated animals, however, change happens fast, making them the perfect model of evolution in action. Suitable for the lay reader and student, as well as the more seasoned biologist, and featuring more than four hundred breathtaking illustrations of living animals, skeletons, and historical specimens, Unnatural Selection will be enjoyed by anyone with an interest in natural history and the history of evolutionary thinking.

Author : Gary Larson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780590456760
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unnatural Selections written by Gary Larson and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wallace Edwards
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1459805569
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unnatural Selections written by Wallace Edwards and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2014-10 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A traveling artist takes the reader through a collection of illustrations of fantastical hybrid creatures.

Author : Tiffany Bozic
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781584237310
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unnatural Selections written by Tiffany Bozic and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most talented artists of her - or any other - generation, Tiffany Bozic combines a deep love of nature and the diversity of life with a self-taught technical prowess that is unmatched. Her long anticipated follow up to 'Drawn by Instinct', 'Unnatural Selections' chronicles the period from the birth of her daughter in 2012 to the present, exploring new themes such as reproduction, growth, and parenthood alongside her ongoing search for universal commonalities between human beings and other living organisms.

Author : Emily Monosson
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610914996
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unnatural Selection written by Emily Monosson and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gonorrhea. Bed bugs. Weeds. Salamanders. People. All are evolving, some surprisingly rapidly, in response to our chemical age. In Unnatural Selection, Emily Monosson shows how our drugs, pesticides, and pollution are exerting intense selection pressure on all manner of species. And we humans might not like the result. Monosson reveals that the very code of life is more fluid than once imagined. When our powerful chemicals put the pressure on to evolve or die, beneficial traits can sweep rapidly through a population. Species with explosive population growth--the bugs, bacteria, and weeds--tend to thrive, while bigger, slower-to-reproduce creatures, like ourselves, are more likely to succumb. Unnatural Selection is eye-opening and more than a little disquieting. But it also suggests how we might lessen our impact: manage pests without creating super bugs; protect individuals from disease without inviting epidemics; and benefit from technology without threatening the health of our children.

Author : Peter Healey
Publisher : Earthscan
ISBN 13 : 1849773661
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unnatural Selection written by Peter Healey and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2012 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Andrea Ross
Publisher : CavanKerry Press
ISBN 13 : 9781933880839
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unnatural Selection written by Andrea Ross and published by CavanKerry Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adopted at birth, Andrea Ross grew up inhabiting two ecosystems: one was her tangible, adoptive family, the other her birth family, whose mysterious landscape was hidden from her. In this coming-of-age memoir, Ross narrates how in her early twenties, while working as a ranger in Grand Canyon National Park, she embarked on a journey to discover where she came from and, ultimately, who she was. After many missteps and dead ends, Ross uncovered her heartbreaking and inspiring origin story and began navigating the complicated turns of reuniting with her birth parents and their new families. Through backcountry travel in the American West, she also came to understand her place in the world, realizing that her true identity lay not in a choice between adopted or biological parents, but in an expansion of the concept of family.