Evolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America
In this excellent and timely first book, Helen Anne Curry explores the efforts of both amateur and professional plant breeders to accelerate the appearance of variations in plants by using new technologies. In the history of biology and genetics, this topic has received scant attention despite its o...
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| description | In this excellent and timely first book, Helen Anne Curry explores the efforts of both amateur and professional plant breeders to accelerate the appearance of variations in plants by using new technologies. In the history of biology and genetics, this topic has received scant attention despite its obvious importance to our understanding of inheritance and evolution. Drawing on a rich set of untapped primary source materials, she also brings together scholars in history of technology and history of biology, most of whom have never been considered in tandem. With her intellectual curiosity and analytical agility, Curry tells a story that is surprising, provocative and generative. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1164252022-09-30T22:58:41Z Evolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America Fitzgerald, Deborah K Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society Fitzgerald, Deborah K. Fitzgerald, Deborah K In this excellent and timely first book, Helen Anne Curry explores the efforts of both amateur and professional plant breeders to accelerate the appearance of variations in plants by using new technologies. In the history of biology and genetics, this topic has received scant attention despite its obvious importance to our understanding of inheritance and evolution. Drawing on a rich set of untapped primary source materials, she also brings together scholars in history of technology and history of biology, most of whom have never been considered in tandem. With her intellectual curiosity and analytical agility, Curry tells a story that is surprising, provocative and generative. 2018-06-19T18:29:19Z 2018-06-19T18:29:19Z 2017-06 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0003-3790 1464-505X http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116425 Fitzgerald, Deborah. “Evolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America.” Annals of Science 74, 4 (June 2017): 341–342 © 2017 Deborah Fitzgerald https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8770-4606 en_US https://doi-org.libproxy.mit.edu/10.1080/00033790.2017.1339123 Annals of Science Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Taylor & Francis Prof. Fitzgerald |
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| title | Evolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America |
| title_full | Evolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America |
| title_fullStr | Evolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America |
| title_full_unstemmed | Evolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America |
| title_short | Evolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America |
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