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Author : Mara Hvistendahl
language : en
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Release Date : 2011
Unnatural Selection written by Mara Hvistendahl and has been published by ReadHowYouWant.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Political Science categories.
"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"--
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Author : Katrina van Grouw
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2018-07-31
Unnatural Selection written by Katrina van Grouw and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-31 with Science categories.
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.
The Unnatural Selection Of Our Species
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Author : Torill Kornfeldt
language : en
Publisher: Legend Press Ltd
Release Date : 2021-10-08
The Unnatural Selection Of Our Species written by Torill Kornfeldt and has been published by Legend Press Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-08 with Medical categories.
In 2018, the first genetically-modified children were born.
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Author : Emily Monosson
language : en
Publisher: Island Press
Release Date : 2016-03-29
Unnatural Selection written by Emily Monosson and has been published by Island Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-29 with Health & Fitness categories.
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.
Unnatural Selection
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Author : Edward Yoxen
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 1986
Unnatural Selection written by Edward Yoxen and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Artificial insemination categories.
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Author : Dennis Wheatley
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2007-08-28
Unnatural Selection written by Dennis Wheatley and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-28 with Fiction categories.
In every village, town and city, in every country throughout the world people are dying for no apparent reason; fine one second, dead the next, young and old, rich and poor and the numbers are accelerating by the hour. The popular dailies call it 'The Blight' but what is 'The Blight' and can it be stopped? Airplanesdrop out of the sky raining death and destruction on the hapless cities belowas their pilots suddenly die at the controls and thedriving ofautomobileshas to bebanned worldwideas countless fatalcrashes claim the lives of millions in towns and cities on every continent,as driversfall victimto'The Blight'. The UN say the deaths are as a result of a mutant virus that has escaped from a Moscow laboratory but Dr Eve James a Micro Biologist from the US Center for Disease Controlknows differently. The finest scientific and medical minds at The Pasteur Institute, Oxford University and Duke University are brought together to find the answers but time is fast running out as governments collapse throughout the world and civilisation teeters on the brink of madness.....and then the terrifying answer. Dennis Wheatley's novel is a spellbinder, taking the reader on a white-knuckle ride into a world bright with terror as humankind faces its ultimate battle - the survival of the species.
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Author : Ed Wode
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2007-03-28
Unnatural Selection written by Ed Wode and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-28 with Fiction categories.
Unnatural Selection deals with evolutionary parallel universes of culture, games, language, Gods, economics, music and a new way of making love. It is the ultimate game of the sexes. The battlefield is the new corporate owned world composed of corporate countries. The workers are terrorists for God. Corporate headquarters is a giant working metronome. God Zimmer is president/dictator of Evolutionland, Inc. Justina Wane, Agent 0069, is his top agent. Agent 666, Dr. Angelo Marconi, is her psychiatrist/lover/deadly rival in the "game."
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Author : Peter Healey
language : en
Publisher: Earthscan
Release Date : 2012
Unnatural Selection written by Peter Healey and has been published by Earthscan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Medical categories.
First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Author : Mark Roeder
language : en
Publisher: Skyhorse
Release Date : 2014-10-14
Unnatural Selection written by Mark Roeder and has been published by Skyhorse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-14 with Science categories.
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."
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Author : Warren Murphy
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-12-11
Unnatural Selection written by Warren Murphy and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-11 with Fiction categories.
Sexy – and totally insane – scientist Dr. Judith White returns with yet another plan for achieving world domination. She’s putting her formula into a brand of bottled water that’s all the rage in Manhattan’s boardrooms and cocktail parties. When one of CURE’s own falls prey to Dr. White’s diabolical scheme, his secrets may give the doctor the extra bite she needs to eat The Destroyer for lunch. Breathlessly action-packed and boasting a winning combination of thrills, humour and mysticism, the Destroyer is one of the bestselling series of all time.