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Darwinian agriculture = how understa...

Denison, R. Ford.

Darwinian agriculture = how understanding evolution can improve agriculture /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Darwinian agriculture/ R. Ford Denison.
Reminder of title:	how understanding evolution can improve agriculture /
Author:	Denison, R. Ford.
Published:	Princeton, N.J. :Princeton University Press, : 2012.,
Description:	258 p. :ill. ; : 24 cm.;
Subject:	Agricultural biotechnology. -
Online resource:	http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/search/PUPB0001597.html
ISBN:	9780691139500

Darwinian agriculture = how understanding evolution can improve agriculture /
Denison, R. Ford.

Darwinian agriculturehow understanding evolution can improve agriculture /[electronic resource] :R. Ford Denison. - Princeton, N.J. :Princeton University Press,2012. - 258 p. :ill. ;24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227] - 247) and index.

Repaying Darwin's debt to agriculture -- What do we need from agriculture? -- Evolution 101: the power of natural selection -- Darwinian agriculture's three core principles -- What won't work: tradeoff-blind biotechnology -- Selfish genes, sophisticated plants, and haphazard ecosystems -- What won't work: misguided mimicry of natural ecosystems -- What has worked: improving cooperation within species -- What could work better: cooperation between two species -- Stop evolution now! -- Learning from plants, ants, and ecosystems -- Diversity, bet-hedging, and selection among ideas.

ISBN: 9780691139500Subjects--Topical Terms:

581254
Agricultural biotechnology.

LC Class. No.: SB106.O74 D46 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 631

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