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Unnatural Selection

Mara Hvistendahl
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Author : Mara Hvistendahl
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781459614574

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"Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio for children under four: 163 boys for every 100 girls. These numbers don't seem terribly grim, but in ten years, the skewed sex ratio will pose a colossal challenge. By the time those children reach adulthood, their generation will have twenty-four million more men than women. The prognosis for China's neighbors is no less bleak: Asia now has 163 million females "missing" from its population. Gender imbalance reaches far beyond Asia, affecting Georgia, Eastern Europe, and cities in the U.S. where there are significant immigrant populations. The world, therefore, is becoming increasingly male, and this mismatch is likely to create profound social upheaval. Historically, eras in which there have been an excess of men have produced periods of violent conflict and instability. Mara Hvistendahl has written a stunning, impeccably-researched book that does not flinch from examining not only the consequences of the misbegotten policies of sex selection but Western complicity with them"--

Unnatural Selection

Katrina van Grouw
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Author : Katrina van Grouw
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781400889648

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A lavishly illustrated look at how evolution plays out in selective breeding Unnatural Selection is a stunningly illustrated book about selective breeding--the ongoing transformation of animals at the hand of man. More important, it's a book about selective breeding on a far, far grander scale—a scale that encompasses all life on Earth. We'd call it evolution. A unique fusion of art, science, and history, this book celebrates the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's monumental work The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, and is intended as a tribute to what Darwin might have achieved had he possessed that elusive missing piece to the evolutionary puzzle—the knowledge of how individual traits are passed from one generation to the next. With the benefit of a century and a half of hindsight, Katrina van Grouw explains evolution by building on the analogy that Darwin himself used—comparing the selective breeding process with natural selection in the wild, and, like Darwin, featuring a multitude of fascinating examples. This is more than just a book about pets and livestock, however. The revelation of Unnatural Selection is that identical traits can occur in all animals, wild and domesticated, and both are governed by the same evolutionary principles. As van Grouw shows, animals are plastic things, constantly changing. In wild animals the changes are usually too slow to see—species appear to stay the same. When it comes to domesticated animals, however, change happens fast, making them the perfect model of evolution in action. Suitable for the lay reader and student, as well as the more seasoned biologist, and featuring more than four hundred breathtaking illustrations of living animals, skeletons, and historical specimens, Unnatural Selection will be enjoyed by anyone with an interest in natural history and the history of evolutionary thinking.

Unnatural Selection

Emily Monosson
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Author : Emily Monosson
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781610914994

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Gonorrhea. Bed bugs. Weeds. Salamanders. People. All are evolving, some surprisingly rapidly, in response to our chemical age. In Unnatural Selection, Emily Monosson shows how our drugs, pesticides, and pollution are exerting intense selection pressure on all manner of species. And we humans might not like the result. Monosson reveals that the very code of life is more fluid than once imagined. When our powerful chemicals put the pressure on to evolve or die, beneficial traits can sweep rapidly through a population. Species with explosive population growth--the bugs, bacteria, and weeds--tend to thrive, while bigger, slower-to-reproduce creatures, like ourselves, are more likely to succumb. Unnatural Selection is eye-opening and more than a little disquieting. But it also suggests how we might lessen our impact: manage pests without creating super bugs; protect individuals from disease without inviting epidemics; and benefit from technology without threatening the health of our children.

The Darwin Awards II

Wendy Northcutt
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Author : Wendy Northcutt
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001-12-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781101218969

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The hilarious New York Times bestselling phenomenon and the perfect funny gift! The Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection brings together a fresh collection of the hapless, the heedless, and the just plain foolhardy among us. Salute the owner of an equipment training school who demonstrates the dangers of driving a forklift by failing to survive the filming of his own safety video. Gawk at the couple who go to sleep on a sloping roof. Witness the shepherd who leaves his rifle unsecured—only to be accidentally shot by one of his own flock. With over one hundred Darwin Award Winners, Honorable Mentions, and debunked Urban Legends, plus science and safety tips for avoiding the scythe of natural selection, The Darwin Awards II proves once again how uncommon common sense can be.

Unnatural Selection

Andrea Ross
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Author : Andrea Ross
Publisher : CavanKerry Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 193388083X

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Adopted at birth, Andrea Ross grew up inhabiting two ecosystems: one was her tangible, adoptive family, the other her birth family, whose mysterious landscape was hidden from her. In this coming-of-age memoir, Ross narrates how in her early twenties, while working as a ranger in Grand Canyon National Park, she embarked on a journey to discover where she came from and, ultimately, who she was. After many missteps and dead ends, Ross uncovered her heartbreaking and inspiring origin story and began navigating the complicated turns of reuniting with her birth parents and their new families. Through backcountry travel in the American West, she also came to understand her place in the world, realizing that her true identity lay not in a choice between adopted or biological parents, but in an expansion of the concept of family.

Unnatural Selection

Peter Healey,Steve Rayner
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Author : Peter Healey,Steve Rayner
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781849773669

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First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Unnatural Selections

Daylanne K. English
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Author : Daylanne K. English
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807863527

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Challenging conventional constructions of the Harlem Renaissance and American modernism, Daylanne English links writers from both movements to debates about eugenics in the Progressive Era. She argues that, in the 1920s, the form and content of writings by figures as disparate as W. E. B. Du Bois, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen were shaped by anxieties regarding immigration, migration, and intraracial breeding. English's interdisciplinary approach brings together the work of those canonical writers with relatively neglected literary, social scientific, and visual texts. She examines antilynching plays by Angelina Weld Grimke as well as the provocative writings of white female eugenics field workers. English also analyzes the Crisis magazine as a family album filtering uplift through eugenics by means of photographic documentation of an ever-improving black race. English suggests that current scholarship often misreads early-twentieth-century visual, literary, and political culture by applying contemporary social and moral standards to the past. Du Bois, she argues, was actually more of a eugenicist than Eliot. Through such reconfiguration of the modern period, English creates an allegory for the American present: because eugenics was, in its time, widely accepted as a reasonable, progressive ideology, we need to consider the long-term implications of contemporary genetic engineering, fertility enhancement and control, and legislation promoting or discouraging family growth.

Unnatural Selection

Aaron Elkins
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Author : Aaron Elkins
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0425216055

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When Gideon Oliver's wife Julie attends a conservation forum on the emerald Isles of Scilly, Gideon tags along, expecting a holiday. To amuse himself, he explores the Neolithic sites there. But instead of ancient ruins, he finds evidence of a very recent murder.

Unnatural Selections

Gary Larson
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Author : Gary Larson
Publisher : Sphere
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : American wit and humor, Pictorial
ISBN : 0751504181

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A collection of cartoons from the Far Side. Other work by the author includes Night of the Crash Test Dummies , In Search of the Far Side and Cows of Our Planet .

Unnatural Selection

Lois Wingerson
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Author : Lois Wingerson
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015036045352

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In this timely, provocative new book, Lois Wingerson explores advances in human genetic research--and how these advances are redefining the way we view ourselves and our world. Every week brings word of new genetic findings. It no longer startles us to read that a gene has been identified that predisposes an individual to breast cancer, to colon cancer, to Alzheimer's disease. From physical illnesses to behavioral traits, the mapping of our genes is moving with astonishing rapidity. Soon we will have extraordinary amounts of information about our most intimate selves. But--as this insightful, sometimes disturbing book makes clear--this new knowledge raises serious ethical, legal, and personal questions none of us can afford to ignore. On the heels of each new finding comes the capacity to test for the disorder the gene may activate, then the test itself--and then the questions. Just because the test is available, should we have it? The tests are often marketed by for-profit companies. Who is to determine what conditions warrant testing? Should it be up to the individual? A group of experts? A government agency? If a person learns he or she carries the gene for a particular disorder, what then? And, in the age of medical claim forms and computer networks, who else has access to that information? What if an employer finds out? If an insurance carrier denies future coverage? What about conceiving a child? Subjecting the fetus to prenatal genetic testing? If treatments for the condition lie well in the future, what benefit is it to know you or your child carry that gene? As the latest genetic breakthroughs make their way from the scientists' laboratories into individuals' lives, we will all face questions like these. In clear and accessible language, "Unnatural Selection takes us into the world of the researchers, physicians, ethicists, families, and people like ourselves as they contemplate the promise and consider the pitfalls of this exploding field of knowledge.

Hip Flask

Jose Ladrönn,Richard Starkings,Joe Casey
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Author : Jose Ladrönn,Richard Starkings,Joe Casey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Hippopotamus
ISBN : 1607067714

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Somewhere in the African desert, thousands of miles from civilization, a group of geneticists led by Kazushi Nikken, has conducted unholy experiments involving both human and animal DNA. This is the story of the birth of Hieronymous Flask and his eventual liberation from the torturous world of MAPPO.

Unnatural Selections

Wallace Edwards
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Author : Wallace Edwards
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781459805569

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A traveling artist takes the reader through a collection of illustrations of fantastical hybrid creatures.

Unnatural Creatures

Neil Gaiman
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Author : Neil Gaiman
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781408845455

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The griffin, the sunbird, manticores, unicorns – all manner of glorious creatures never captured in zoos, museums or photographs are packed vividly into this collection of stories. Neil Gaiman has included some of his own childhood favourites alongside stories classic and modern to spark the imagination of readers young and old. All contributors have given their work free to benefit Dave Eggers' literacy charity, 826DC. Also includes a new Neil Gaiman Story.

Unnatural Selection

Mark Roeder
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Author : Mark Roeder
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781628724806

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Unnatural Selection is the first book to examine the rise of the "technocentric being"—or geek—who personifies a distinct new phase in human evolution. People considered geeks often have behavioral or genetic traits that were previously considered detrimental. But the new environment of the Anthropocene period—the Age of Man—has created a kind of digital greenhouse that actually favors their traits, enabling many non-neurotypical people to bloom. They resonate with the technological Zeitgeist in a way that turns their weaknesses into strengths. Think of Mark Zuckerberg versus the towering, Olympics-bound Winklevoss twins in the movie Social Network. Roeder suggests that the rise of the geek is not so much the product of Darwinian "natural selection" as of man-made—or unnatural—selection. He explains why geeks have become so phenomenally successful in such a short time and why the process will further accelerate, driven by breakthroughs in genetic engineering, neuropharmacology, and artificial intelligence. His book offers a fascinating synthesis of the latest trends in these fields and predicts a twenty-first century "cognitive arms race" in which new technology will enable everyone to become more intelligent and "geek-like."

Our Posthuman Future

Francis Fukuyama
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Author : Francis Fukuyama
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781847653703

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Is a baby whose personality has been chosen from a gene supermarket still a human? If we choose what we create what happens to morality? Is this the end of human nature? The dramatic advances in DNA technology over the last few years are the stuff of science fiction. It is now not only possible to clone human beings it is happening. For the first time since the creation of the earth four billion years ago, or the emergence of mankind 10 million years ago, people will be able to choose their children's' sex, height, colour, personality traits and intelligence. It will even be possible to create 'superhumans' by mixing human genes with those of other animals for extra strength or longevity. But is this desirable? What are the moral and political consequences? Will it mean anything to talk about 'human nature' any more? Is this the end of human beings? Our Posthuman Future is a passionate analysis of the greatest political and moral problem ever to face the human race.