Margaret Derry: 3 books
Art and Science in Breeding
Creating Better Chickens
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2012
Chickens are now the most scientifically engineered of livestock. How have the methods used by geneticists differed from those employed by domestic breeders over time? Art and Science in Breeding details the relationship between farm practices and agricultural genetics in poultry breeding from 1850...
Masterminding Nature
The Breeding of Animals, 1750-2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
In Masterminding Nature, Margaret Derry examines the evolution of modern animal breeding from the invention of improved breeding methodologies in eighteenth-century England to the application of molecular genetics in the 1980s and 1990s. A clear and concise introduction to the science and practice...
Horses in Society
A Story of Animal Breeding and Marketing Culture, 1800-1920
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Before crude oil and the combustion engine, the industrialized world relied on a different kind of power - the power of the horse. Horses in Society is the story of horse production in the United States, Britain, and Canada at the height of the species' usefulness, the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century....