Beauty or Statistics: Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900-2000

by Bert Theunissen

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487507003
• ISBN13: 9781487507008
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 8.7"