Journal article
Inevitable decay: Debates over climate, food security, and plant heredity in nineteenth-century Britain
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Climate change and the failure of crops are significant but overlooked events in the history of heredity. Bad weather and dangerously low harvests provided momentum and urgency for answers to questions about how best to improve and acclimatize staple varieties. In the 1790s, a series of crop failures in Britain led to the popularization of and widespread debate over Thomas Andrew Knight’s suggestion that poor weather was in fact largely unconnected to the bad harvests. Rather, Knight argued, ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Springer Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of the History of Biology Journal website
- Publication date:
- 2018-12-11
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-12-11
- DOI:
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1573-0387
- ISSN:
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0022-5010
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- English
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pubs:951591
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- pubs:951591
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951591
- Deposit date:
- 2018-12-12
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- Lidwell-Durnin, J
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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- © The Author(s) 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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