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  • Second nature : domestication as experiment and metaphor in 20th century American psychobiology

    Creator:
    Blanchard, Nicholas
    Abstract:
    By 1900 domestication was a promising, if somewhat vexed, subject in biology. Volumes had been written about domestication, but little serious scientific inquiry was directed toward the phenomenon. Expertise lay with practical men, primarily breeders and fanciers. The bulk of scientific commentary on domestication came from anthropologists who derived theories...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    ’  Biology  in  Cultures  of  Natural  History.   Nicholas  Jardine,  James  Secord,  and