Sentient Genetics: Breeding the Animal Breeder as Fundamental Other
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1754-0194
DOI: 10.1111/j.1754-0208.2010.00324.x