Książka Hybrid Noël Kingsbury

Hybrid

Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Twarda
Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy
Wysyłamy za 14-20 dni
192.85
Disheartened by the shrink-wrapped, Styrofoam-packed state of contemporary supermarket fruits and ve...

Informacje o książce

Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Twarda
Data wydania
2009
strony
512
EAN
9780226437040
ISBN
0226437043
Enbook ID
04039151
Waga
810
Wymiary
90 x 60 x 37

Pełny opis

Disheartened by the shrink-wrapped, Styrofoam-packed state of contemporary supermarket fruits and vegetables, many shoppers hark back to a more innocent time, to visions of succulent red tomatoes plucked straight from the vine, gleaming orange carrots pulled from loamy brown soil, swirling heads of green lettuce basking in the sun. With "Hybrid", Noel Kingsbury reveals that even those imaginary perfect foods are themselves far from anything that could properly be called natural; rather, they represent the end of a millennia-long history of selective breeding and hybridization. Drawing on historical and scientific accounts, as well as a rich trove of anecdotes, Kingsbury shows how scientists, amateur breeders, and countless anonymous farmers and gardeners slowly caused the evolutionary pressures of nature to be supplanted by those of human needs.

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