Purity

IF 0.4 3区 哲学 Q1 HISTORY Agricultural History Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI:10.1215/00021482-10795875
Margaret Derry
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This article uses the concept of purity to explore the thinking of purebred animal breeders and that of eugenicists in Britain and North America between 1880 and 1920. It begins with an explanation of why such a study is important and continues with the historical background of purity's role in animal breeding over the nineteenth century and an assessment of the theoretical foundations of Francis Galton's eugenics. The article argues that the shared concern with pedigree keeping, which characterized both purebred breeding and eugenics, made it easy for historians to assume that the two fields were more connected than they actually were. In fact, the basis for purity in animal breeding—namely, inbreeding and marketability—could not migrate to eugenics. Pedigree use in animal breeding (inbreeding, consistency, and marketability) actually had little in common with pedigree use in eugenics (evidence of inheritance via statistical quantification). Unpacking this historic connection between animal breeding and eugenics has significance today for such disciplines as animal breeding itself, genetics, politics, and ethics.
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本文使用纯种的概念来探讨 1880 年至 1920 年间英国和北美纯种动物饲养者和优生学家的思想。文章首先解释了此类研究的重要性,然后介绍了纯种性在十九世纪动物育种中的历史背景,并对弗朗西斯-高尔顿的优生学理论基础进行了评估。文章认为,纯种繁育和优生学的共同特点是对血统保持的关注,这使得历史学家很容易认为这两个领域的联系比实际情况要多。事实上,动物育种的纯度基础--即近亲繁殖和适销性--不可能迁移到优生学中。动物育种中的血统使用(近亲繁殖、一致性和适销性)实际上与优生学中的血统使用(通过统计量化证明遗传)几乎没有共同之处。解读动物育种与优生学之间的这一历史联系,对今天的动物育种本身、遗传学、政治学和伦理学等学科都具有重要意义。
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Agricultural History
Agricultural History 农林科学-科学史与科学哲学
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0.70
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16.70%
发文量
58
审稿时长
>36 weeks
期刊介绍: Agricultural History is the journal of record in the field. As such, it publishes articles on all aspects of the history of agriculture and rural life with no geographical or temporal limits. The editors are particularly interested in articles that address a novel subject, demonstrate considerable primary and secondary research, display an original interpretation, and are of general interest to Society members and other Agricultural History readers.
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