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Eugenics is the now-defunct (and creepy!) practice of breeding supposedly superior humans to achieve genetic improvements while sterilizing undesirables. Sound familiar? It's the exact same thing we now do to dogs and it's responsible for a range of health and behavioral issues in them. Ed.
This chapter is excerpted from "A Matter of Breeding: A Biting History of Pedigree Dogs and How the Quest for Status Has Harmed Man's Best Friend" by Michael Brandow (Beacon Press, 2015 ). Reprinted with permission from Beacon Press.
Does a dog need to have a certain look to behave in a certain way? Seeking some explanation for our present-day obsession with predictability, many are surprised to find the trail leads back to eugenics, that dirty word recalled with fear and loathing but a set of assumptions that have as much to do with pets as they once did with people. Few know that many of our core beliefs about bloodlines, appearance, and skill retain more than a tinge of those ugly theories that have made some people and pets seem superior for their complexion or ancestral profiles, and others inferior for having substandard markings or a checkered past.
Most upright citizens have officially sworn off applying eugenics to humans these days, but for some strange reason, they continue to breed and buy their dogs along old eugenic lines. Anderson Cooper was shocked and appalled on his show in May 2012 to report that forced sterilizations of "undesirables" were conducted by the tens of thousands in the United States until as recently as the 1970s. [1] But at home, he had a Welsh springer spaniel, a breed born to what AKC writer Freeman Lloyd once called "a doggie family that has existed in its approximately pure state for many hundreds of generations." [2] Despite its illustrious past, Cooper's brand of choice is now prone to a number of serious health issues and has an average inbreeding coefficient higher than that of first cousins. [3] Blood "purity" has worked against the springer, which has been subjected, like many breeds, to the same outdated theories of "better breeding" that get pups culled for having the wrong coat color, make "good" families feel superior to not-so-good onesand get millions of innocent people killed for their ethnic or racial background. Sterilization, euthanasia, segregation, holocausts, and judgments at Westminster all have a common heritage in eugenics, and despite the fact that English isn't among the many languages that still use "race" and "breed" interchangeably, we have no excuse for not knowing or caring about this history.
Terrible but true: who among us, at one time or another, hasn't been guilty of stereotyping? And who among us has never let looks determine likability? Old biases aren't easy to shed. Perhaps the most obvious crime against progressive thinking can be found in our own backyards, where it's still socially acceptable to say, "I have a chocolate Lab at home," but not, "I only hire Latino/black/Asian/fillin-the-blank maids because they clean better." Why is "We grew up with two goldens" in fashion, but "We've adopted a pair of Orientals" is not? What's wrong with "I have a dog" or "Two dogs are better than one?" I myself have no degree in statistics but question the myth that all pedigree German shepherds are loyal, smart, and trainable because one in a million qualifies for service work. Not all golden retrievers are heroes because one was depicted with a fireman at Ground Zero in a painting that hangs in the AKC's art collection, no more than all Americans are champion athletes because Michael Phelps won some gold medals.
The "science" of eugenics was founded in the mid-nineteenth century as a tool for keeping people in their proper places. "It is, too, a strange fact," wrote Gordon Stables, a firm believer in head shape as an indicator of character, "that the more highly civilised a nation is, the greater its care and culture of the canine race." [4] Based on a similar observation that fair-skinned folk with certain anatomical features were supposedly more attractive and intelligent than "darkies" (too repugnant, many thought, even to serve food on First-Class dining cars), eugenics devised an elaborate and complex system of color coding and measurement, an apparatus that grew more elaborate and complex with time. Focusing on a somewhat selective selection of mostly random and coincidental characteristics that conquerors and ruling classes had haphazardly amassed along their uphill climbs, traits certain groups just happened to share, such as blond hair, blue eyes, a taste for classical music, or a fondness for fox huntingby-products of generations of inbreeding and upbringing only with their own kindeugenic investigators compiled an exhaustive catalog of hair-splitting nuances to prove that races were, indeed, separate and unique. Some races, they felt, were essentially better than others, and mixing racesor "mongrelization"was unhealthy and probably dangerous to all races involved.
The eugenic inventory of racial indicators grew so encompassing and complex that experts managed to convince many that their observations simply had to be true, if only because, it was thought, no sane person would have observed them if they weren't. The subtleties of human skin tone, the way the eyes were set into the head, the precise angle at which the jaw protruded, neck length, hair texture, nose curvaturethe convolution of spirals in brain matter, the spaces between the toes, the distance between the navel and the penisevery detail was carefully gauged and painstakingly documented, then compared and contrasted in ways that somehow always seemed the most flattering to white, Northern Europeans and their white, Northern European descendants across the Atlantic (or people who looked like them). Superficial distinctions were exaggerated to the point that different racial or ethnic groups were said to have descended from separate prehistoric ancestors, a theory only recently disproved by DNA, not unlike the freshly debunked myth that not all dogs evolved from wolves. Embellished bloodlines based on outward appearance, and a rudimentary understanding of genetics that made heredity seem as simple as pigmentation in guinea pigs, were used to explain deeper character traits like morality, criminality, intelligence, and "feeblemindedness." Before long, eugenics had just about every aspect of human diversity neatly mapped, categorized, and evaluated based on looks or social ties. Anatomical and behavioral traits, even personal quirks, were correlated to family, class, race, and ethnic background, or to whether a person ended up working as a banker, baker, soldier, stenographer, poet, or piano tuner. Eugenics explained it all: infertility, spelling, dancing, neatness, insanity, gambling, gout, disobedience, double-jointedness, punctuality, "pug" noses on ill-born Irish, even ball playing. [5]
Among the many errors of eugenics were to misinterpret outward appearance, behavior, and culturally biased test results as indicators of other qualities; to confuse heredity with environment; to overestimate the role of individual genes in the inheritance of complex behaviors; to focus on human pedigrees instead of individuals; and to cling to an archaic belief in inbreeding for blood "purity," already proven as detrimental to half-mad, hemophiliac royal families as it would prove to be for fancy, "scientifically" bred dogs in the century to come.
Like so many attempts at improvement in the nineteenth century, eugenics dressed old habits in new garb. Ancient, quasi-mystical arts of physiognomy and phrenology, and a more recent discipline called craniometry, went into these dazzling demonstrations of mental gymnastics. What eugenics brought to the table was a protective layer of statistics and documents, modern additions of the nineteenth century that lent authenticity to the usual slants on race, class, and any other basis for bias. The arcane assumption that head shape indicated personality or intelligence was now provable with an extensive set of precise measurements. Skulls could finally be placed side-by-side in glass display cases at natural history museums as updated reliquaries to be interpreted as eugenic high priests saw fit. Primitive, gut reactions against outsiders and oddballs because of the way they looked, acted, or dressed now had the blessing of observations showing darker-skinned people did, in fact, tend to be dishonestbecause they didn't blush, which they couldn't, at least not visibly, being darker-skinnedincontrovertible proof that they were born with something to hide. In the same vein, the medieval notion of "blue blood," based on the fact that bloodlines tended to be more visible on fair-skinned aristocrats than on darker-skinned workers, Africans, Jews, or Arabswhose own blue veins were, indeed, less visible because they had darker skinnow had the blessing of a host of new parameters for defining race and inevitably showing fair-skinned testers in the fairest light. National types, patriots declared confidently, could now be clearly defined and separated from outsiders"race," until quite recently, meaning national origingiving them carte blanche to discriminate at home and dominate abroad through conquest and colonialism. [6]
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We're All in This Together
Everything in the natural world is connected. An ecosystem is a community of living and non-living things that work together. Ecosystems have no particular size. An ecosystem can be as large as a desert or a lake or as small as a tree or a puddle. If you have a terrarium, that is an artificial ecosystem. The water, water temperature, plants, animals, air, light and soil all work together. If there isn't enough light or water or if the soil doesn't have the right nutrients, the plants will die. If the plants die, animals that depend on them will die. If the animals that depend on the plants die, any animals that depend on those animals will die. Ecosystems in nature work the same way. All the parts work together to make a balanced system!
A healthy ecosystem has lots of species diversity and is less likely to be seriously damaged by human interaction, natural disasters and climate changes. Every species has a niche in its ecosystem that helps keep the system healthy. We are learning about new species every day, and we are just figuring out the roles they play in the natural world. By studying and maintaining biodiversity, we help keep our planet healthy.
In a lake ecosystem, the sun hits the water and helps the algae grow. Algae produces oxygen for animals like fish, and provides food for microscopic animals. Small fish eat the microscopic animals, absorb oxygen with their gills and expel carbon dioxide, which plants then use to grow. If the algae disappeared, everything else would be impacted. Microscopic animals wouldn't have enough food, fish wouldn't have enough oxygen and plants would lose some of the carbon dioxide they need to grow.
Ecosystems have lots of different living organisms that interact with each other. The living organisms in an ecosystem can be divided into three categories: producers, consumers and decomposers. They are all important parts of an ecosystem.
Producers are the green plants. They make their own food. Consumers are animals and they get their energy from the producers or from organisms that eat producers.
There are three types of consumers: herbivores are animals that eat plants, carnivores are animals that eat herbivores and sometimes other carnivores and omnivores are animals that eat plants and other animals.
The third type of living organism in an ecosystem is the decomposers. Decomposers are plants and animals that break down dead plants and animals into organic materials that go back into the soil, which is where we started!
What are the major parts of an ecosystem? An ecosystem includes soil, atmosphere, heat and light from the sun, water and living organisms.
Soil is a critical part of an ecosystem. It provides important nutrients for the plants in an ecosystem. It helps anchor the plants to keep them in place. Soil absorbs and holds water for plants and animals to use and provides a home for lots of living organisms.
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The American National Standards Institute (ANSI), coordinator of the U.S. voluntary standardization system, is pleased to announce the first six accreditations under two pilot programs that ANSI launched in 2014 to address eco-labeling and environmental declarations.
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has developed standards that define different types of environmental labels: Type I, Type II, and Type III. One ANSI pilot program has focused on Type I environmental labeling scheme owners and the competence of eco-labeling certification bodies. The other ANSI pilot program has focused on program operators for Type III environmental labels and declarations, and the competence of certification bodies that verify/validate Environmental Product Declarations (EPD).
Eco-labeling initiatives have grown steadily in recent years, as consumers and manufacturers alike look to protect the environment. However, greenwashing and false declarations have been a real concern as the demand for sustainability grows, said Reinaldo Figueiredo, ANSI senior program director for product and process accreditation. ANSI sponsored an independently conducted market analysis to examine the use of the ISO environmental labels, specifically Types I and III. That study confirmed a growing demand for an ANSI-led accreditation effort that would add value, rigor, and accountability to the process.
In March 2015, the ANSI Accreditation Committee [voted] approved by ballot that the following organizations satisfied the eligibility requirements for the pilot programs as follows:
Type I Environmental labeling program (Eligibility)
Water Quality Association (WQA): Evaluated by ANSI as an eligible Eco-Labeling Scheme Owner that develops Type I environmental labeling programs in accordance with the following standards:
ISO 14020:2000, Environmental labels and declarations General Principles
ISO 14024:1999, Environmental labels and declarations Type I environmental declarations Principles and procedures
PRO-PR-164ISO 14024, Requirements/Process to Determine Eligibility of a Type I Environmental Labeling Certification Scheme
WQA also accredited by ANSI as a Type I Eco-labeling Certification Body in accordance with the following standards:
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A giant flower beetle is shown flying with an electronic backpack. Researchers remotely control its untethered flight by stimulating a newly discovered steering muscle. (Credit: Tat Thang Vo Doan and Hirotaka Sato/NTU Singapore)
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Hard-wiring beetles for radio-controlled flight turns out to be a fitting way to learn more about their biology. Cyborg insect research led by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, and Singapores Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is enabling new revelations about a muscle used by beetles for finely graded turns.
By strapping tiny computers and wireless radios onto the backs of giant flower beetles and recording neuromuscular data as the bugs flew untethered, scientists determined that a muscle known for controlling the folding of wings was also critical to steering. The researchers then used that information to improve the precision of the beetles remote-controlled turns.
[STORY: Cockroaches have individual personalities, study finds]
This study, to be published Monday, March 16, in the journalCurrent Biology, showcases the potential of wireless sensors in biological research. Research in this field could also lead to applications such as tools to aid search-and-rescue operations in areas too dangerous for humans.
The giant flower beetles in this study averaged 6 centimeters long and weighed about 8 grams. (Credit: Tat Thang Vo Doan and Hirotaka Sato/NTU Singapore)
This is a demonstration of how tiny electronics can answer interesting, fundamental questions for the larger scientific community, said Michel Maharbiz, an associate professor in UC Berkeleys Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and the studys principal investigator. Biologists trying to record and study flying insects typically had to do so with the subject tethered. It had been unclear if tethering interfered with the insects natural flight motions.
In particular, the researchers said, it had been difficult to elucidate the role that smaller muscles play in fine steering. What the new study found was that the coleopteran third axillary sclerite (3Ax) muscle, found in the articulation of insect wings, plays a key function in the beetles ability to steer left or right.
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As Ronda Rousey continues to dominate the women's bantamweight division, Cristiane "Cyborg" Justino lurks in the background, constantly hanging over her legacy like an immutable cloud of darkness.
Rousey is content to keep her head down in the pouring rain of criticism, refusing to look up at the one threat actually capable of dethroning her. Much has been made about weight as reasoning behind this superfight's delayed existence.
But those arguments are often countered by the fact that Rousey started her professional MMA career as a featherweight. Not to mention, she competed at 154 pounds to win a bronze medal in judo in the 2008 Olympic Games.
Rousey has even teased at taking bouts against former featherweight contender Gina Carano and women's boxing legend Laila Ali, but when it comes to moving up to fight Cyborg, it's typically the same old, same old from the champ. If she isn't calling Cyborg a cheaterfor failing a drug test over three years ago, she is constantly trying to bait the Invicta featherweight champ into cutting 40 pounds and meeting her at 135 pounds.
The entire ordeal is a head-scratcher for most. When appearing on Fox Sports 1'sAmerica's Pregame, Rousey claimed she was "the greatest fighter of all time." If this were true, wouldn't she want to move up in weight and beat Cyborg to create substance for such braggadocios claims?
Not necessarily, according to Joe Rogan.
During The Joe Rogan Experience(NSFW language) podcast show, the UFC commentator admitted he wasn't the least bit surprised by Rousey refusing to move up and take on Cyborg at featherweight:
Do I understand why Ronda would want to fight her at 135? Of course, yeah, it's the smart thing to do. You're going to fight a f-----g wrecking machine. She's big, and she knocks b-----s out. She knocks chicks out in a way that very few fighters knock people out. She puts it on girls. She's scary. Everyone should be scared of her. They all should be scared, especially if you're lighter than her.
Cyborg has finished 11 of her 13 career wins by knockout. After spending nearly two years away from MMA, she returned in February and earned a first-round TKO over Charmaine Tweet in her first Invicta title defense. It was the same carnivorous destruction fans have come to expect from the women's MMA legend.
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Giant flower beetles were fitted with radio transmitters so scientists could make them take off, land, hover and turn left and right in the air Technology could lead to the insects being used as surveillance drones In the short-term it's letresearcherslearn more about the insect's muscles Engineers found that a muscle in the articulation of insect wings, plays a key function in the beetle's ability to steer left or right
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Published: 06:24 EST, 17 March 2015 | Updated: 06:56 EST, 17 March 2015
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Engineers may have already created cyborg cockroaches, but now they have fitted beetles with radio transmitter backpacks, which enable them to control the flight of insects in mid-air for the first time.
Researchers were able to make the beetles take off and land, as well as hover in mid-air and turn left and right on a whim.
The technology could eventually lead to the insects being used as surveillance drones in disaster areas.
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The Ronda Rousey-Cris Cyborg storyline continues. Rousey's outspoken mother, Dr. AnnMaria De Mars, chimed in with how she thinks the fight will play out.
Per Submission Radio, as transcribed by Bloody Elbow's Anton Tabuena, De Mars stated unequivocallyRousey will break Cyborg's arm if they were to ever fight.
"Oh, Ronda will break her arm," De Mars said. "I can say that right now. Ill tell you two things: Ronda will break her arm, and Ronda will not go up in weight."
The highly anticipated hypothetical fight is still a ways off, but the interest continues to grow.
De Mars is never one to mince words, and her latest comments will be sure to invoke a response by the Brazilian powerhouse.
Rousey and Cyborg, for lack of a better comparison, are the Mayweather and Pacquiao of women's MMA. It's a fight fans have demanded for years, but it has not happened forvarious reasons. The trash talk between the two goes back years and never fails to entertain.
The main obstacle is that they fight in different weight classes.
Rousey is the 135-pound UFC champion, and Cyborg competes at 145 pounds, a weight class the UFC currently does not support. Cyborg would love for Rousey to move up in weight, but the champ has insisted on numerous occasions that Cyborg cut weight and meet her in her division.
Cyborghas stated she plansto eventually make it down to 135 pounds. The UFC has said that if she can prove she can make the weight, they'd likely sign her.
Mayweather-Pacquiao finally got signed in 2015. Hopefully, Rousey-Cyborg gets done in 2016. Rousey has quickly squashed just about every contender in her division currently signed to the UFC. Cyborg is not only the last legitimate threat out there, but she just might be able to beat the unbeatable Rousey.
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