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Beauty or Statistics

Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900–2000

By: Bert Theunissen

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Beauty or Statistics

Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900–2000

By: Bert Theunissen

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 centre 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 analysed from the perspective of changing cultures of breeding, taking practical, commercial, normative, and aesthetic considerations into account.

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Eugène Dubois and the Ape-Man from Java

The History of the First ‘Missing Link’ and Its Discoverer

By: L.T. Theunissen

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Eugène Dubois and the Ape-Man from Java

The History of the First ‘Missing Link’ and Its Discoverer

By: L.T. Theunissen

Although the name Pithecanthropus is now seldom used, there are few who study the origin of our species who will fail to recognise the historical place of the usage and its association with Eugene Dubois. During the last thirty or forty years, Australopithecus and its African context has tended to draw attention from the early work on our origins in Java. It is now increasingly common to hear the term 'pithecanthropine' used only to indicate the Asian or Far Eastern examples of Homo erectus which, although probably derived from African ancestry, have some features that in the opinion of some experts may justify their being considered distinctive. This discussion is not within the pages that follow which deal extensively with the work of Eugene Dubois. He was an extraordinary man who did as much as any person since to put the great antiquity of our ancestors firmly in the public domain. Dubois became involved with the study of human origins from a medical and anatomical background as have many since. The jealousies and professional pressures that we think of as a phenomenon of the post-war years were clearly a major factor in deciding the future of his career.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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Beauty or Statistics

Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900–2000

By: Bert Theunissen

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Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900–2000

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