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Evolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America Psychological Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2006Plant breeders have long sought technologies to extend human control over nature. Early in the twentieth century, this led some to experiment with startlingly strange tools like x ray machines, chromosome altering chemicals, and radioactive elements. Contemporary reports celebrated these mutation inducing methods as ways of generating variation in plants on demand. Speeding up evolution, they imagined, would allow breeders to genetically engineer