Unnatural Selection (eBook)

Katrina van Grouw (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2018
304 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8964-8 (ISBN)

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A lavishly illustrated look at how evolution plays out in selective breedingUnnatural 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.

Autor

Katrina van Grouw, author of The Unfeathered Bird (Princeton), inhabits that no-man's-land midway between art and science. She holds degrees in fine art and natural history illustration and is a former curator of ornithological collections at a major national museum. She's a self-taught scientist with a passion for evolutionary biology and its history.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.7.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 150 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Anatomie / Neuroanatomie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
• Schlagworte: Abyssinian guinea pig • Albinism • Allele • Ancon sheep • August Weismann • bananaquit • Barbary dove • Bengal cat • biologist • bird • Brachycephaly • Budgerigar • Carl Correns • carotenoid • cattle • Cavalier King Charles Spaniel • Charles Darwin • Chicken • Chinese Crested Dog • chromosome • common descent • Crested duck • Dachshund • darwin's finches • Dog Breed • dog breeding • Dog crossbreed • domestication • Dutch Belted • dwarfism • english lop • Eugenics • Evolution • Fancy pigeon • female • Flight feather • flightless bird • fowl • Frillback • Gemmule (pangenesis) • genomic imprinting • German Beauty Homer • Gouldian finch • Great Pyrenees • Grey junglefowl • Ground sloth • Grover Krantz • Heck cattle • Hugo de Vries • Inbreeding • Japanese bantam • King Charles Spaniel • Leavitt Bulldog • Leopard cat • Leucism • Lord Morton's mare • mallard • Mammal • manx cat • MARKHOR • Melanin • Mendelian Inheritance • Mongrel • moulting • Mutation • Naked Neck • Nankin bantam • Natural selection • Netherland Dwarf rabbit • Old English Game fowl • On the Origin of Species • Ornithology • Particulate inheritance • Phenotype • plumage • Polydactyl cat • Polydactyly • Polymorphism (biology) • Poultry • poultry farming • Pouter • pygmy goat • Racing Homer • Red junglefowl • Reproductive success • Rex rabbit • Rock dove • Rosecomb • selective breeding • Sexual Dimorphism • Sexual Selection • silkie • Swan goose • tabby cat • The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication • Toulouse goose • Tumbler pigeons • Turnspit Dog • Wild boar • Wood Duck
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8964-2 / 1400889642
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8964-8 / 9781400889648