Evolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America - Softcover

Curry, Helen Anne

 
9780226790862: Evolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America
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ISBN 10: 022679086X ISBN 13: 9780226790862
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2021

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Plant breeders have long sought technologies to extend human control over nature. Early in the twentieth century, this led some to experiment with startlingly strange tools like x-ray machines, chromosome-altering chemicals, and radioactive elements. Contemporary reports celebrated these mutation-inducing methods as ways of generating variation in plants on demand. Speeding up evolution, they imagined, would allow breeders to genetically engineer crops and flowers to order. Creating a new food crop or garden flower would soon be as straightforward as innovating any other modern industrial product.

In Evolution Made to Order, Helen Anne Curry traces the history of America’s pursuit of tools that could intervene in evolution. An immersive journey through the scientific and social worlds of midcentury genetics and plant breeding and a compelling exploration of American cultures of innovation, Evolution Made to Order provides vital historical context for current worldwide ethical and policy debates over genetic engineering.

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Helen Anne Curry is the Peter Lipton Lecturer in History of Modern Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
022679086X
ISBN 13 
9780226790862
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Anzahl der Seiten
295
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