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Where the wild things are now : domestication reconsidered /
Domestication has often seemed a matter of the distant past, a series of distinct events involving humans and other species that took place long ago. Today, as genetic manipulation continues to break new barriers in scientific and medical research, we appear to be entering an age of biological contr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Berg,
2007.
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| Colección: | Wenner-Gren international series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The domestication of anthropology / Nerissa Russell
- Animal interface: the generosity of domestication / Nigel Clark
- Selection and the unforeseen consequences of domestication / Helen M. Leach
- Agriculture or architecture? The beginnings of domestication / Peter J. Wilson
- Monkey and human interconnections: the wild, the captive, and the in-between / Agustin Fuentes
- "An experiment on a gigantic scale": Darwin and the domestication of pigeons / Gillian Feeley-Harnik
- The metaphor of domestication in genetics / Karen Rader
- Domestication "downunder": Atlantic salmon farming in Tasmania / Marianne Lien
- Putting the lion out at night: domestication and the taming of the wild / Yuka Suzuki
- Of rice, mammals, and men: the politics of "wild" and "domesticated" species in Vietnam / Pamela D. McElwee
- Feeding the animals / Molly H. Mullin.