Download or read book The Emergence of Genetic Rationality written by Phillip Thurtle and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using sources ranging from horse-breeding manuals to eugenics treatises, natural history tables to railway surveys, and novels to personal diaries, and drawing on the work of figures as diverse as Thorstein Veblen, Jack London, Edith Wharton, William James, and Luther Burbank, this edition uses David Starr Jordan--naturalist, poet, eugenicist, and educator--as a touchstone for deciphering the mode of rationality that genetics superseded.