You might also like

More about Hybrid

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 116 loyalty points

Book synopsis

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.

Book details

Book category Books in English Technology, engineering, agriculture Agriculture & farming Agricultural science

• Full title: Hybrid
• Author: Noël Kingsbury
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 512
• EAN: 9780226437040
• ISBN: 0226437043
• ID: 04039151
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 810 g
• Dimensions: 60 × 90 × 37 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. October 2009

Trending among others

---

---

---