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humanimalia-13832	Guest, Kristen	Uneven Evolutions: Review of Mackenzie Cooley, The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance	2023	6	.pdf	application/pdf	1929	61	44	In taking up this focus, Cooley not only deepens our understanding of the di- verse philosophies that informed breeding practice, but also high- lights continuities with the present that take in, among other things, the idea of eugenics, a breeding philosophy “seized upon cyclically across the ages as a means of shaping the future to meet the inter- ests of the present” (5). Cooley employs a deliberately expansive view of both “breeders” and “philosophy” to take in the range of formal and informal practices and ideologies that shaped breeding practice.	cache/humanimalia-13832.pdf	txt/humanimalia-13832.txt