An award-winning science reporter uncovers the growing threat to America's food supply caused by genetic manipulation of crops that produces large, attractive produce that is vulnerable to fungi, global warming, and other dangers because of its genetic uniformity.

Product Description: Unnatural Selection: Technology, Politics and Plant Evolution is the first full-length study to focus entirely on the historical development of the control and ownership of living materials. Moving from a detailed consideration of property rights in the United States, Cary Fowler explores current efforts to create globally applicable mechanisms...read more