Unnatural selection

by Van Grouw, Katrina

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Title Statements

Full title :Unnatural selection / Katrina van Grouw.

Summary

Van Grouw celebrates the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, by explaining a previously missing piece to the evolutionary puzzle: the knowledge of how individual traits are passed from one generation to the next. She builds on the analogy that Darwin himself used, comparing the selective breeding process with natural selection in the wild, and features a multitude of examples. In showing that identical traits can occur in all animals, wild and domesticated, and both are governed by the same evolutionary principles, we discover that In wild animals the changes are usually too slow to see; in domesticated animals change happens fast. -- Adapted from Jacket.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:[2018].

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Princeton University Press
Place of Publication:Princeton
Language:eng
Publication Date:[2018].

The Physical Object

Description:1 ressource en ligne (xvi, 284 pages) : : illustrations .

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1400889642, 9781400889648
oclc:on1066546678
LC Classification:SF105
Dewey Decimal:636.08/2

PART 1: Origin -- Problems with Pigeonholes -- Plastic Animals -- Darwin's Universal Law -- PART 2: Inheritance -- Colored Liquid; Colored Glass -- A Question of Dominance -- "Natura non Facit Saltus" -- PART 3: Variation -- The "M" Word -- Common Threads -- Terms & Conditions Apply -- PART 4: Selection -- Facets of Fitness -- Islands of All Kinds -- Between Dog & Wolf.

Subjects

Animal breeding -- Evolution Animal genetics Animaux domestiques -- Évolution Darwin, Charles Domestic animals -- Evolution e-books Evolution (Biology) Génétique animale Livres numériques