Genetic science has profoundly shaped how we think about biology. This book takes us back to the moment just before the emergence of genetic rationality at the turn of the twentieth century to explicate the technological, economic, cultural, and even narrative thransforations necessary to make genetic thinking possible. Using sources ranging from horse breeding manuals to eugenics tratises, natural history tables to railway surveys, and novels to personal diaries, and drawing on the work of figures as diverse as Thorstein ...
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Genetic science has profoundly shaped how we think about biology. This book takes us back to the moment just before the emergence of genetic rationality at the turn of the twentieth century to explicate the technological, economic, cultural, and even narrative thransforations necessary to make genetic thinking possible. Using sources ranging from horse breeding manuals to eugenics tratises, natural history tables to railway surveys, and novels to personal diaries, and drawing on the work of figures as diverse as Thorstein Veblen, Jack London, Edith Wharton, William James, and Luther Burbank, the book uses David Starr Jordan--naturalist, poet, eugenicist, educator--as a touchstone for deciphering the mode of rationality that genetics superseded. Philip Thurtle is assistant professor of the comparative history of ideas, University of Washington.
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