TY  - BOOK
AU  - Theunissen,Bert
TI  - Beauty or Statistics: Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900-2000 
SN  - 9781487507008
U1  - 636.08/2 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food (see also POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy)
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Dutch agriculture
KW  - Dutch farm animals
KW  - History of animal husbandry
KW  - History of livestock breeding
KW  - Mendel
KW  - Mendelism
KW  - Texel
KW  - chickens
KW  - cows
KW  - genetics
KW  - modernization of agriculture
KW  - pigs
KW  - quantitative genetics
N1  - restricted access
N2  - 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 analyzed from the perspective of changing cultures of breeding, taking practical, commercial, normative, and aesthetic considerations into account
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