| 单词 | domestication |
| 例句 | It’s likely that the cultural centre of Göbekli Tepe was somehow connected to the initial domestication of wheat by humankind and of humankind by wheat. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Tendencies to kill humans have disqualified many otherwise seemingly ideal candidates for domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Some animals and plants, such as camels and cashew nuts, were domesticated even later, but by 3500 BC the main wave of domestication was over. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus, agriculture could arise in the Fertile Crescent from domestication of locally available wild plants, without having to wait for the arrival of crops derived from wild plants domesticated elsewhere. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Thus, among the thousands of culturally diverse native peoples of Australia, the Americas, and Africa, no universal cultural taboo stood in the way of animal domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z To appreciate the changes that developed under domestication, just compare wolves, the wild ancestors of domestic dogs, with the many breeds of dogs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The domestication of fire was a sign of things to come. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In order to answer this question, we shall now compare three regions that lie at opposite extremes among centers of independent domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In addition, I mentioned factors disqualifying big mammalian candidates for domestication, but I did not tabulate how many candidates are disqualified by each factor on each continent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Knowing far more about local plants than all but a handful of modern professional botanists, they would hardly have failed to cultivate any useful wild plant species that was comparably suitable for domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Once the crop had become available, there was no further need to gather it from the wild and thereby set it on the path to domestication again. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But those gathered seeds would have constituted the material for the unconscious first steps of plant domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Having in the preceding two chapters discussed why so many wild plant species seemingly suitable for domestication were never domesticated, we shall now tackle the corresponding question for domestic mammals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But no one would seriously describe this evolutionary process as domestication, because birds and bats and other animal consumers don’t fulfill the other part of the definition: they don’t consciously grow plants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They apparently did not arrive until the first millennium A.D., long after their domestication in Asia, because they had to wait for large-scale boat traffic across the Indian Ocean. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Especially useful contributions have been made by ecological geographers, cultural anthropologists, biologists studying plant and animal domestication, and scholars concerned with the impact of infectious diseases on history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z These cumulative developments constituted the unconscious first steps of plant domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Since the first stage in unconscious domestication involves gathering seeds to eat, how on earth did domestication of wild almonds ever reach that first stage? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The first set consists of continental differences in the wild plant and animal species available as starting materials for domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One method is to examine a map of the geographic distribution of the crop’s or animal’s wild ancestor, and to reason that domestication must have taken place in the area where the wild ancestor occurs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Those extinctions left Eurasia with many more wild candidates for domestication than the Americas offered. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Plant and animal domestication began in at least one part of the world within a few thousand years of that date. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Table 5.1 summarizes, for these and other areas of local domestication, some of the best-known crops and animals and the earliest known dates of domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It turns out that the eastern U.S. founder crops were four plants domesticated in the period 2500-1500 B.C., a full 6,000 years after wheat and barley domestication in the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Plant domestication may be defined as growing a plant and thereby, consciously or unconsciously, causing it to change genetically from its wild ancestor in ways making it more useful to human consumers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z On the one hand, perhaps almost any well-watered temperate or tropical area of the globe offers enough species of wild plants suitable for domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A significant step on the way to the top was the domestication of fire. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But the history of domestication is much more complicated. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z A second factor is that, just as the depletion of wild game tended to make hunting-gathering less rewarding, an increased availability of domesticable wild plants made steps leading to plant domestication more rewarding. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We already saw in Chapter 7 that all of these statements also apply to plant domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z An even more obvious factor behind the delay was the wild animals and plants available for domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z What is it about those plants that kept their domestication beyond the reach of ancient farmers capable of mastering such difficult techniques as grafting? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For many animals, domestication has been a winning strategy. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Let’s begin by looking at domestication from the plant’s point of view. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Before animal domestication, the sole means of transporting goods and people by land was on the backs of humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That suite’s modest potential for domestication was responsible for the late start of food production in North America. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Since its homeland includes the Fertile Crescent, the cradle of Western civilization and animal domestication, ancient peoples must have experimented extensively with onagers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Some of those related beans and barleys were indeed domesticated independently in the Americas or China, far from the early site of domestication in the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z However, when we find evidence that the same wild ancestor was domesticated independently in different areas, we infer that the crop spread too slowly to preempt its domestication elsewhere. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A subtler expression of this geographically varying ease of spread is the phenomenon termed preemptive domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At the least, we can say that China was one of the world’s first centers of plant and animal domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It turns out that all but a few candidates for domestication have been eliminated by the Anna Karenina principle. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The most direct contribution of plant and animal domestication to wars of conquest was from Eurasia’s horses, whose military role made them the jeeps and Sherman tanks of ancient warfare on that continent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Playing marriage counselor to the zebra / human couple and other ill-sorted pairs, we can recognize at least six groups of reasons for failed domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Thus, as far as plant and animal domestication was concerned, the head start and high diversity lay with Eurasia, not with Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The same pattern repeated itself elsewhere in the world, whenever peoples lacking native wild mammal species suitable for domestication finally had the opportunity to acquire Eurasian domestic animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That is, domestication involves wild animals’ being transformed into something more useful to humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In fact, the earliest identified crops were two drought-resistant species of millet in North China, but rice in South China, suggesting the possibility of separate northern and southern centers of plant domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There is no obvious reason why the principles which have acted so efficiently under domestication should not have acted under Nature.... Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z All those are direct ways in which plant and animal domestication led to denser human populations by yielding more food than did the hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z How, in short, do we assess the potential of an entire local flora for domestication? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Lack of any single required characteristic dooms efforts at domestication, just as it dooms efforts at building a happy marriage. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But big mammal domestication virtually ended 4,500 years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That problem also derailed domestication of North American bighorn sheep, which belong to the same genus as Asiatic mouflon sheep, ancestor of our domestic sheep. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The failure of the Khoisan and Pygmies to develop agriculture was due not to any inadequacy of theirs as farmers but merely to the accident that southern Africa’s wild plants were mostly unsuitable for domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Those wild cereal harvests were precursors to the domestication of the earliest crops, the cereals wheat and barley, in the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The domestication of animals was founded on a series of brutal practices that only became crueller with the passing of the centuries. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But most wild animal and plant species have proved unsuitable for domestication: food production has been based on relatively few species of livestock and crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s thus straightforward to review a region’s big mammals and to test whether the lack of mammal domestication in some regions was due to the unavailability of suitable wild species, rather than to local peoples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Those dates suggest domestication of emmer wheat in the Fertile Crescent, a conclusion supported by the fact that ancestral wild emmer wheat is confined to the area extending from Israel to western Iran and Turkey. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As Table 7.1 summarizes, the domestication of local cereal / pulse combinations launched food production in many areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In short, plant and animal domestication meant much more food and hence much denser human populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Another area where local domestication appears to have followed the arrival of Southwest Asian founder crops is the Indus Valley region of the Indian subcontinent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Modern pigs are derived from independent sequences of domestication in China, western Eurasia, and possibly other areas as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Hence these are typical examples of the phenomenon of preemptive domestication that we discussed above. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Many changes of plants under domestication resulted from such changes in conditions and hence in the favored types of individuals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The ancestors of most of the founder crops have wild relatives, in the Fertile Crescent and elsewhere, that would also have been suitable for domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Pig bones appeared in Jomon times on offshore islands where pigs do not occur naturally, making one wonder whether Jomon people were starting to experiment with pig domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z With the domestication of animals and edible plants, people won a decisive victory in this battle, assuring our survival on this planet. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z If one accepts the traditional, earlier dates for the onset of American plant domestication, then 5,000 years instead of 1,500 or 2,000 years elapsed before food production supported villages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In contrast, most ancient Southwest Asian crops exhibit just one of the alternative wild variants or alternative transforming mutations, suggesting that all modern varieties of that particular crop stem from only a single domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In these four areas the onset of food production provides little or no evidence for the domestication of local plant or animal species, but also little or no evidence for the replacement of human population. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z All those problems delayed the domestication of apples, pears, plums, and cherries until around classical times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One example, which we have already considered at length, is plant domestication, with at least nine independent origins. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Even for valuable crops, the times of domestication vary greatly: for instance, peas were domesticated by 8000 B.C., olives around 4000 B.C., strawberries not until the Middle Ages, and pecans not until 1846. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Almonds provide a striking example of bitter seeds and their change under domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Because of the Pleistocene extinctions, the Americas lacked animals suitable for domestication into beasts of burden; without animals to haul carts, individuals on rough terrain can use skids almost as effectively. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z We have already seen that plant domestication involves the modification of wild plants so that they become more useful to humans by virtue of larger seeds, a less bitter taste, or other qualities. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Archaeologists have tentative indications of early domestication in spots from Illinois to Alabama by iooo B.C. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z All these facts indicate that the explanation for the lack of native mammal domestication outside Eurasia lay with the locally available wild mammals themselves, not with the local peoples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Rapid spread of a crop may preempt domestication not only of the same wild ancestral species somewhere else but also of related wild species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Yet scientists today could undoubtedly, if they wished, fulfill for many species that part of the definition of domestication that specifies the control of breeding and food supply. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Zoologists will tell you that certain animals more or less “chose” domestication. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z All of Southwest Asia’s founder crops preempted domestication of any of their close relatives throughout the whole expanse of western Eurasia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Those Major Five of mammal domestication are the cow, sheep, goat, pig, and horse. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Dates for animal domestication neglect dogs, which were domesticated earlier than food-producing animals in both Eurasia and the Americas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But there is a fatal flaw in this reasoning: plant domestication is not a matter of hunter-gatherers’ domesticating a single plant and otherwise carrying on unchanged with their nomadic lifestyle. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Southwest for several thousand years after their domestication in Mexico, and Mexican chili peppers and chenopods never did reach it in prehistoric times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As summarized in Table 9.3, the era of big mammal domestication began with the sheep, goat, and pig and ended with camels. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z On each continent, animal and plant domestication was concentrated in a few especially favorable homelands accounting for only a small fraction of the continent’s total area. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z On the other hand, perhaps at least some humans in any large area of the globe would have been receptive to the experimentation that led to domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Those extinctions eliminated all the large wild animals that might otherwise have been candidates for domestication, and left native Australians and New Guineans with not a single native domestic animal. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Dates of domestication provide a third line of evidence confirming Gabon’s view that early herding peoples quickly domesticated all big mammal species suitable for being domesticated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That fulfills part of our definition of plant domestication, as the genetic modification of an ancestral plant in ways that make it more useful to consumers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Did all those peoples of Africa, the Americas, and Australia, despite their enormous diversity, nonetheless share some cultural obstacles to domestication not shared with Eurasian peoples? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Only a modest number of factors determines whether a mammal is suitable for domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Thus, many wild animal species reached the first stage in the sequence of animal-human relations leading to domestication, but only a few emerged at the other end of that sequence as domestic animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That social structure is ideal for domestication, because humans in effect take over the dominance hierarchy. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Keeping wild animals as pets, and taming them, constitute an initial stage in domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The world holds only about 148 species of large wild mammalian terrestrial herbivores or omnivores, the large mammals that could he considered candidates for domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As we shall see, there were few or no wild mammal species suitable for domestication in the other Mediterranean zones of California, Chile, southwestern Australia, and South Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Because of this ease of domestication, big-seeded annuals were the first, or among the first, crops developed not only in the Fertile Crescent but also in China and the Sahel. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As far as biological prerequisites for apple domestication were concerned, North American Indian farmers were like Eurasian farmers, and North American wild apples were like Eurasian wild apples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As we shall see in the next chapter, the corresponding problem for domestication of big wild mammals proves easier to solve, because there are many fewer species of them than of plants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Because of the limited variety of wild starting material suitable for plant domestication, even Africa’s earliest agriculture may have begun several thousand years later than that of the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The genetic changes induced by domestication have occurred very rapidly. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Initially, one of the most puzzling features of animal domestication is the seeming arbitrariness with which some species have been domesticated while their close relatives have not. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Evidently, most of the Fertile Crescent’s founder crops were never domesticated again elsewhere after their initial domestication in the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That persistence of Chinese writing in Japan and Korea is a vivid 20th-century legacy of plant and animal domestication in China nearly 10,000 years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The transformation of warfare by horses began with their domestication around 4000 B.C., in the steppes north of the Black Sea. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Europeans today are heirs to one of the longest traditions of animal domestication on Earth—that which began in Southwest Asia around 10,000 years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Eventually, thousands of years after the beginnings of animal domestication and food production, the animals also began to be used for milk, wool, plowing, and transport. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Those were some of the advantages that the Fertile Crescent’s flora afforded the first farmers: it included an unusually high percentage of wild plants suitable for domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In all, of the world’s 148 big wild terrestrial herbivorous mammals—the candidates for domestication—only 14 passed the test. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Table 7.1 also shows that the Fertile Crescent’s early domestication of flax for fiber was paralleled elsewhere. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A second method for identifying a crop’s or animal’s site of domestication is to plot on a map the dates of the domesticated form’s first appearance at each locality. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This is perhaps three and a half millennia before horses were being tamed in northern Kazakhstan, and 5,000 years before they were being buried with chariots in graves – showing their definitive domestication around 2000BC. Horses shaped our art of war and peace 2011-08-29T09:44:37Z One could attribute this to the “domestication hypothesis” — the idea that dogs’ social behavior has been molded to satisfy human sensibilities. The ‘Talking’ Dog of TikTok 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z The origin of domestication, Wrangham proposes, was the group execution of alpha males. Did Capital Punishment Create Morality? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Blue Ivy, who arrived in March, stayed and has since started dabbling in domestication. ‘These are working cats’: Meet the feral D.C. felines tasked with hunting rodents 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z This book considers a pioneering Soviet study begun the late 1950s that replicated the domestication process with silver foxes; Trut is the current lead researcher on the project. New in Paperback: ‘Jerusalem,’ ‘Leonardo da Vinci’ 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Unlike chimps, dogs have been subject to a process of artificial evolution as a result of domestication. The ‘Talking’ Dog of TikTok 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z With the domestication of animals, the rise of agriculture and the invention of metalworking, we entered the level of the barbarian. The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond – review 2013-01-09T10:22:31Z This hidden domestication is what really threatens our times. Literature does not stop at national borders 2013-02-27T13:59:46Z "Despite growing domestication of men in this matter, urinating while standing up is still widespread," he said. German court upholds tenant's right to pee standing up 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z The artists at hand dealt with the feminine “problem” through a program of genteel idealization and domestication. Art Review: Danish Paintings Show at Scandinavia House 2013-12-05T22:25:09Z Genomics is now revealing our tangled interactions with infectious agents, one of the main consequences of our domestication of animals over the last 10,000 years. Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us About Sex, Diet, and How We Live by Marlene Zuk – review 2013-04-24T06:30:03Z “So we were surprised to find DNA evidence of their domestication.” Why your cats really love treats 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z Dr George Gibbs, for example, in letters to his intended while shopping for a place to live, proved to be devoted, solicitous and wholly ready for domestication. TV review: At Home With the Georgians 2010-12-03T08:00:00Z So, in one final act of submission, Buck nestles into Thornton’s lap, before he turns his back on domestication and returns to his own kind. Have dog actors had their last on-screen bark? 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z Another particularly acquisitive period in human evolution was probably livestock domestication about 10,000 years ago. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen – review 2012-10-11T07:00:01Z I learned a lot about the development of domestication. An equestrian expert on The Horse: from Arabia to Royal Ascot 2012-06-03T18:30:01Z As the battle between these cartoon villains and Nate goes to court, the writing becomes painfully platitudinous, skating around the real controversies surrounding the domestication of intelligent primates. ‘Gigi & Nate’ Review: A Tender Bond 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z The domestication of this once-fearsome grouch continues in “Despicable Me 2.” Movie Review: ‘Despicable Me 2’ Stars Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig 2013-07-02T15:52:08Z Why is domestication, with its suggestion of making something small, homey and tame, associated with feminine things? Review | Artist Lynda Benglis became controversial in an instant, but her career has thrived for decades 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Surveying the latest research, he concludes that the dog's epic journey towards domestication probably started around 20,000 years ago. In Defence of Dogs by John Bradshaw ? review 2011-07-08T21:56:01Z Expressions of maternal disappointment are luxuries of domestication, not the wild, and their variations are infinite. Motherlode Blog: Loving Your Child's Differences 2011-10-04T16:05:35Z For a long time, no theory of human domestication was thought to be necessary, even by Darwin, on the apparently self-evident ground that domestication requires someone to direct the process, like the breeder. Did Capital Punishment Create Morality? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z One important reason for their early success was the widespread belief among sailors that they brought good luck—another example of the role of human caprice in the domestication process. How fancy cats evolved: The science of our most adorable pets 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z Geneticists not involved in the study suggested that analyzing equine DNA from around the time of domestication, rather than millennia before, might show more clearly what genetic changes occurred as horses were tamed. Ancient DNA reveals history of horse domestication 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z For now, that includes learning Burmese, teaching a seminar on the politics and ecology of rivers, and researching a new book on the “deep history” of plant and animal domestication. James C. Scott, Farmer and Scholar of Anarchism 2012-12-05T04:50:08Z “Crudo” is concerned with domestication — with the central character’s anxieties about marriage as an institution, as well as the material clutter of what is commonly known as lifestyle. A First Novel Pays Tribute to the Iconoclastic Kathy Acker 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z These foods and drinks are courtesy of the domestication of several different animals, plants and microbes. Thank fungi for cheese, wine and beer this holiday season 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z Ms. Rossellini also touches on evolutionary trends and domestication, using the example of wolves and dogs, and marvels at some animals’ acting skills. Review: Isabella Rossellini as Ringmaster in ‘Link Link Circus’ 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Rice domestication was already under way in the area. Peachy keen: ancient pits reveal origin of peach domestication 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z It is actually a domestication of a classic Venetian recipe. The Experimental Food Society's culinary revolution 2010-09-22T20:59:00Z As far as domestication is concerned, it is hard to top the honing of brewer’s yeast. Thank fungi for cheese, wine and beer this holiday season 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z You write that it’s a city “where wildness and domestication are forever running into each other,” and a place of invisibility, with lives hidden behind tall hedges or within cars. Not Getting with the Program: An Interview with Meghan Daum 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z An equally important element of that theory is domestication, which turns out to be a crucial category for interpreting the human evolutionary past. Did Capital Punishment Create Morality? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Scientists said on Monday an analysis of well-preserved ancient peach pits traces the domestication of this sweet fruit back at least 7,500 years to China's lower Yangtze River Valley in the vicinity of Shanghai. Peachy keen: ancient pits reveal origin of peach domestication 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z “I have this speculative idea that hundreds and hundreds of years ago, there was the ‘domestication of electrons’ through witchcraft,” she said. Moon-landing conspiracy theorists aren’t all the same. Meet some from the Pacific Northwest. 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Silphium only grew wild in North Africa and resisted all efforts at domestication by Sicilian culinary professionals and so was ultimately imported to extinction. Fish roasted in fig leaves is a gift from the world's first food snob 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z As snacking became subject to the forces of commercialization and domestication, it also underwent a kind of Americanization. TV makes us fat! 2013-09-07T22:00:00Z Advanced civilisations arose where the environment allowed for plant domestication, leading to the generation of surplus and population growth, which in turn led to political centralisation and social stratification. The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond – review 2013-01-09T10:22:31Z Indeed, he appears to represent precisely what Scorsese laments: the technological domestication of cinema. Have dog actors had their last on-screen bark? 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z The show does, after all, have a strong domestication theme. Socially Distant, Except for the Dogs, Sheep and Chickens 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z I’ve long been fascinated by two questions: What are the genetic changes that led to their domestication? Thank fungi for cheese, wine and beer this holiday season 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z Remarkably, the most beneficial effect involved two mutations that arose millennia ago and were central in tomato domestication. You say genome editing, I say natural mutation 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z The evidence also indicates a significant drop in the area's population, and changes in the settlement's architecture to reflect a more agrarian lifestyle, including the initial penning of livestock and other markers of animal domestication. A prehistoric cosmic airburst preceded the advent of agriculture in the Levant 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z But what does that “domestication” look like for AI? What Humans Lose When AI Writes for Us 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z Sadly, it is almost impossible to trace a current varietal back to western Asia or the Caucasus, the two early domestication centers. Wine’s True Origins Are Finally Revealed 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z "Remarkably, the voice tone patterns characterizing women's dog-directed speech are not typically used in dog-dog communication – our results may thus serve evidence for a neural preference that dogs developed during their domestication." Experts say you should talk to your dog like a baby. A surprising new study reveals the canine brain 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z Where exactly domestication occurred – if it was a single place and not simultaneously throughout the entire region – is unclear. Cats first finagled their way into human hearts and homes thousands of years ago – here’s how 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z Native to Central Asia, it was introduced into Britain in 1893 as an ornamental plant, but "escaped from domestication". The dangerous plants lurking in plain sight 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z Its first chapter discusses artificial selection and domestication of such animals as pigeons, cats, cattle, and dogs. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Other investigators thought domestication first happened in the Caucasus. Wine’s True Origins Are Finally Revealed 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z Evidence for the domestication of plants and animals in this region dates to about 7000 BCE, but the process may have begun earlier. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z In fact, only 13 genes have been changed by natural selection during the domestication process. Cats first finagled their way into human hearts and homes thousands of years ago – here’s how 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z Many were zoonoses that appeared with the domestication of animals, as in the case of tuberculosis. Concepts of Biology 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z Most likely, there has been an interdependence between natural and artificial factors that have resulted in plant domestication. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z They found the islanders regularly dined on both seafood and land-based animals; they also ate a lot of plants high in carbon-4—such as maize—suggesting they may have been experimenting with plant domestication. Oldest human remains from Puerto Rico contradict idea of simple island nomads 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z In fact, the earliest evidence we have of the domestication of cattle was discovered on Saharan rock art. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The most significant evolutionary changes during cat domestication involve their behavior. Cats first finagled their way into human hearts and homes thousands of years ago – here’s how 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z Other animals, too, saw similar phenotype changes through the process of domestication. Scientists once thought they understood how domestication worked. Now, they're not so sure 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z They compared these genes with a set of 764 genes others have identified as important to mammal domestication, such as those involved with sociality and the management of aggression. Elephants may be domesticating themselves 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z The plans state that the company has achieved a level of "domestication" in the species and that they do not "show important signs of cannibalism or competition for food". World's first octopus farm proposals alarm scientists 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z Before the domestication of plants and animals, life in prehistoric Africa was characterized by the hunter- gatherer stage of human civilization. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The sound of these meows has evolved during domestication to more effectively communicate with us. Cats first finagled their way into human hearts and homes thousands of years ago – here’s how 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z Indeed, there are so many physical traits that humans observe as distinguishing domesticated animals from wild ones that the process is sometimes called "domestication syndrome." Scientists once thought they understood how domestication worked. Now, they're not so sure 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Their analysis revealed that several of the 674 genes were associated with domestication. Elephants may be domesticating themselves 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z Dr. Orlando, who has spent years mapping the domestication history of horses, is an author of the paper, which he hopes will jump-start research on the humble donkey and restore some of its dignity. At Long Last, a Donkey Family Tree 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z This lifestyle began to change dramatically beginning around 7000 BCE when plant and animal domestication methods from the Fertile Crescent were first adopted in Africa. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Some estimates put domestication as far back as 15,000 years ago, well in advance of the development of agriculture. Wine grapes were first domesticated 11,000 years ago, gene study says 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Yet what if there is no pattern between which traits correspond with domestication? Scientists once thought they understood how domestication worked. Now, they're not so sure 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z It’s not yet clear what types of environmental pressures might have led elephants to develop traits that we associate with domestication, Raviv says. Elephants may be domesticating themselves 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z “Finding an auxiliary for transportation in those increasingly difficult conditions probably triggered the domestication process,” he said. At Long Last, a Donkey Family Tree 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z Below the Sahara, plant domestication was developed independently in both the east and the west as the people in those areas learned to cultivate their own unique plant varieties. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z “We joined forces and looked into what’s really going on with grape evolution and grapevine domestication,” Chen said. Wine grapes were first domesticated 11,000 years ago, gene study says 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Some researchers believe this may be the case — which, in turn, means we have been thinking about domestication all wrong. Scientists once thought they understood how domestication worked. Now, they're not so sure 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z “It’s nice to see the correlations with bonobos and humans and the genetic similarities tied to the reduction of aggression,” says Melinda Zeder, an emeritus archaeologist and domestication expert at the Smithsonian Institution. Elephants may be domesticating themselves 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z When Brookshire finds it easy to pick up and hold a wild pigeon, the scientist advising her explains that such docility results from millennia of domestication. Review | Rodent: Friend or foe? ‘Pests’ explores how some animals become villains. 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z There, sometime after 7000 BCE, agricultural technology and knowledge about the domestication of wheat, barley, sheep, goats, and cattle were introduced into the region, likely from southwest Asia. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Research into grape domestication has long been dominated by archaeologists, who tell the story of that era through seeds and traces of wine in broken pottery. Wine grapes were first domesticated 11,000 years ago, gene study says 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z According to Dr. Greger Larson — an archaeology professor at the University of Oxford — advocates of domestication syndrome simply have not provided enough evidence to support their theory. Scientists once thought they understood how domestication worked. Now, they're not so sure 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z For her, domestication requires “two to tango”—a domesticator and a domesticate. Elephants may be domesticating themselves 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z So why would cat domestication correlate with agriculture? How the evolution of domestic cats traces the history of colonization 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z By as early as 6000 BCE, the gathering of these wild grains had begun to evolve into deliberate domestication. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z “It was one of the first globally traded goods. It’s justified to say that the domestication of grapevines was really one of the driving forces of civilization,” Nick said. Wine grapes were first domesticated 11,000 years ago, gene study says 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z "It's the same thing with how you define domestication syndrome," Larson told Salon. Scientists once thought they understood how domestication worked. Now, they're not so sure 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Most of us are familiar with the outward signs of domestication: a tamer personality and babylike features. Elephants may be domesticating themselves 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z If true, that would be a far cry from the laborious domestication process early humans may have undertaken with horses, dogs, cows and sheep. How the evolution of domestic cats traces the history of colonization 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z There, the domestication of yams by the Niger-Congo peoples developed gradually and likely in a piecemeal fashion beginning possibly around the same time the Nilo-Saharans of the eastern Sahara were adopting agriculture. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z He said the domestication of grapevines requires extensive horticultural skill. Wine grapes were first domesticated 11,000 years ago, gene study says 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z It started by deconstructing Belyayev's famous experiment with farm foxes, the one that seemed to prove domestication theory. Scientists once thought they understood how domestication worked. Now, they're not so sure 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z He blames domestication for the rise of monoculture, which he says leads to a larger, more sedentary human population in which disease can spread rapidly. What Is a Dog Anyway? 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z "Unlike dogs and other domesticated animals, we haven't really changed the behaviors of cats that much during the domestication process, so cats once again prove to be a special animal." How the evolution of domestic cats traces the history of colonization 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z In the other two locations, plant domestication appears to have emerged independently. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Yet human domestication at times limits gourds' genetic diversity, as Heather R. Kates from the University of Florida Genetics Institute explained. Gourds, the dogs of the plant world, can be one pound or 1,000. Geneticists think they know why 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z These were then cross-referenced with traits associated with domestication such as changes in their skeletons, coats, ears, tails, brain sizes and seasonalities. Scientists once thought they understood how domestication worked. Now, they're not so sure 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z I'm a paleoanthropologist who has been researching the effects of domestication. What Is a Dog Anyway? 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z An extensive genetic analysis of more than 100 varieties of wild and cultivated bananas unpeels the fruit’s tangled history of domestication and reveals the existence of three previously unknown—and possibly still living—ancestors. Researchers have gone bananas over this fruit’s complex ancestry 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z There, the domestication of plants and animals developed piecemeal and gradually, and its precise origins are not entirely clear. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z In other words, cultivated gourd species that have a lot of variety did not have their genetic variety cut off by domestication in the same way as other commonly used crops like corn and bananas. Gourds, the dogs of the plant world, can be one pound or 1,000. Geneticists think they know why 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z So can science definitively determine whether domestication syndrome is a real thing? Scientists once thought they understood how domestication worked. Now, they're not so sure 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z The geographer Jared Diamond has called domestication the worst mistake humans ever made. What Is a Dog Anyway? 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z “Banana domestication is much more complicated than I had realized previously,” says Loren Rieseberg, an evolutionary biologist at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, who was not involved in the study. Researchers have gone bananas over this fruit’s complex ancestry 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z In some parts of the region, the domestication of camelids such as llamas, guanacos, and alpacas for meat and later wool may have begun as early as 7400 BCE. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Ancient DNA has addressed questions ranging from the origins of the first Americans to the domestication of horses and dogs, the spread of livestock herding and our bodies' adaptations — or lack thereof — to drinking milk. What’s next for ancient DNA studies after Nobel Prize honors groundbreaking field of paleogenomics 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z For now, it is more difficult to study domestication because the benchmarks can move around. Scientists once thought they understood how domestication worked. Now, they're not so sure 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z And yet, the first domestication—the turning of wolves into dogs—was an impressive feat. What Is a Dog Anyway? 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Over the course of their domestication, the modern bananas available in supermarkets lost their seeds and became fleshier and sweeter. Researchers have gone bananas over this fruit’s complex ancestry 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z The earliest evidence for the domestication of plants and animals in the Americas comes from the Andean region. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z However, during the process of domestication, cats developed the ability to form social relationships not just with other cats, but also with people. How to Tell if Your Cat Loves You, According to Science 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z Some research suggests the process of domestication changes how animals think. Shy Raccoons Are Better Learners Than Bold Ones, Study Finds 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Hansen Wheat says the key to understanding what happened during dog domestication is to pay attention to what they have in common. Can wolves bond with people like dogs do? 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z But it’s been hard to pin down exactly how and when that domestication occurred. Researchers have gone bananas over this fruit’s complex ancestry 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Similarly, the domestication of sunflowers, useful for their oily and nutritious seeds, appears to have begun by about 2300 BCE. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Reexamining ancient chicken bones revealed that the fowl were likely domesticated in Thailand about 3,500 years ago, thousands of years after previously proposed domestication dates. News Briefs from around the World: September 2022 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z Strong domestication has deprived them of many of their instincts. Most Pets Can't Sweat: What You Can Do for Them in a Heat Wave 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z In a way, domestication involves artificially driving the evolution of an organism. 19th century geneticist Gregor Mendel famously demonstrated this with pea plants. Did humans domesticate plants, or did they domesticate us? 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z Genetic analyses can help piece together the history of domestication and pin down living members of those ancestral fruits. Researchers have gone bananas over this fruit’s complex ancestry 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z It made it possible to feed much larger groups, necessitated the abandonment of hunter-gatherer-style egalitarianism, prompted the domestication of animals, and ultimately made way for human civilization as we understand it. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Improvements in the sequencing of both modern and ancient DNA have shed light on the domestication of horses, dogs, maize, goats, and microbes. From a single domestication, donkeys helped build empires around the world 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Does this have to do with their domestication? Most Pets Can't Sweat: What You Can Do for Them in a Heat Wave 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Harari's book has been widely dismissed as "infotainment" that doesn't rely much on scientific evidence, but it appears that either way of framing domestication is oversimplified. Did humans domesticate plants, or did they domesticate us? 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z “This runs counter to most genetic arguments that speculate that initial domestication results in a bottleneck,” he says. Researchers have gone bananas over this fruit’s complex ancestry 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z The adoption of agriculture and the domestication of animals allowed for larger populations, surpluses of food, and labor specialization, even as they reduced leisure time and restructured formerly egalitarian societies into hierarchical tiers. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z To better understand the origins of these humble beasts of burden, evolutionary biologist Ludovic Orlando from Paul Sabatier University—who has spent years working out the domestication history of horses—turned to donkeys. From a single domestication, donkeys helped build empires around the world 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z In the 10,000 years since the first domestication of plants, humans have moved closer and closer to destroying themselves. Review | Small farms are in trouble, but nobody seems to care 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z With less vulnerability to disease, these animals often fared better than humans in their new home, thriving both in the wild and in domestication. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Yet this does not mean that all modern domesticated dogs came entirely from that eastern Eurasian domestication process. A new study unlocks secrets of dog domestication 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z Instead, they began actively promoting the growth and eventual transformation of crops, and later the domestication of animals, to provide themselves with the resources they needed. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The burst of flavor from summer’s first sweet corn and the proud stance of a show dog both testify to the power of domestication. Humans tamed the microbes behind cheese, soy, and more 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z Where and when dogs arose is one of the biggest mysteries of domestication. Ancient wolves give clues to origins of dogs 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Researchers believe that about ten thousand years ago, humans also began the domestication of plants and animals, adding agriculture as a means of sustenance to hunting and gathering techniques. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z This indicates "either an independent domestication process or admixture from local wolves." A new study unlocks secrets of dog domestication 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z The process of plant and animal domestication is often seen as a one-way street, with humans orchestrating the process while staying relatively unchanged. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z And their genomes have acquired many of the classic signatures of domestication, researchers reported in two talks this month at a meeting in Washington, D.C. Humans tamed the microbes behind cheese, soy, and more 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z He remains skeptical, however, about the possibility of separate domestication events. Ancient wolves give clues to origins of dogs 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z “This study raises the bar of our knowledge of dog domestication and wolf population dynamics.” A Canine Companion So Nice It (Maybe) Evolved Twice 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z But despite more than a century of research, scientists still do not know the full story of how and why dog domestication occurred in the first place. Stress Management Helped Wolves Become Dogs 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z How does the theory of human domestication affect your understanding of our relationship with agriculture? World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The studies “are getting to the mechanisms” of how microbial domestication works, says Benjamin Wolfe, a microbiologist at Tufts University. Humans tamed the microbes behind cheese, soy, and more 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z Skoglund and a vast cast of collaborators from 16 countries decided to try something new: build a massive map of wolf ancestry around the time of domestication. Ancient wolves give clues to origins of dogs 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z The goal was to “build a big map of wolf ancestry, wolf genetics, around the time of domestication,” said Dr. Skoglund, the study’s senior author. A Canine Companion So Nice It (Maybe) Evolved Twice 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z “This is the first genetic demonstration that supports the hypothesis that mutations in the stress response system initiated canine domestication,” says the study’s senior author Miho Nagasawa, an animal scientist at Azabu University in Japan. Stress Management Helped Wolves Become Dogs 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z In what other ways do you think agriculture may have brought about human domestication? World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z “The restructuring of metabolism appears to be a hallmark of domestication in fungi,” he reported last week at Microbe 2022, the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. Humans tamed the microbes behind cheese, soy, and more 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z But none of the ancient wolves proved to be a close ancestor of dogs, meaning the actual site of domestication remains a mystery. Ancient wolves give clues to origins of dogs 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Although many questions remain, the new data will be a valuable jumping-off point for scientists who are still trying to solve the many mysteries of wolf evolution and dog domestication, scientists said. A Canine Companion So Nice It (Maybe) Evolved Twice 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Given the correlation between changes in the cortisol-producing gene and the more ancient dog group’s lesser social-cognitive abilities, the authors surmise that lower stress levels likely played a role in dog domestication. Stress Management Helped Wolves Become Dogs 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z About nine thousand years ago, groups like those in the Andes region began experimenting with animal domestication. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The picture that had emerged was one of early domestication 8,000 or more years ago, possibly in China or India or Southeast Asia. Before Chickens Were Nuggets, They Were Revered 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z That suggests that at some point, European wolves either interbred with a western population of dogs or, more intriguingly, underwent a separate domestication event. Ancient wolves give clues to origins of dogs 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z That in turn narrowed the site of domestication to Southeast Asia. How the wild jungle fowl became the chicken 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z Over thousands of years of domestication, they’ve become “really good at reading our emotions,” she said, but “I don’t think that it’s worked as much in the other direction.” What Your Dog Wants 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z In each area, plant domestication allowed Neolithic settlements to begin, from which larger cultures and civilizations later grew. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The reports also propose a new hypothesis for how domestication occurred. Before Chickens Were Nuggets, They Were Revered 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z “I think their evidence makes the case even stronger that we’re looking at a single domestication event,” he says, though one that may have been complicated by interbreeding and other factors. Ancient wolves give clues to origins of dogs 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z But genetics of living birds could not narrow the window for domestication, says geneticist Ming-Shan Wang, a postdoc at the University of California, Santa Cruz, first author of the genetic study. How the wild jungle fowl became the chicken 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z Not all sea animals are the aquatic equivalent of a hawk, however, and some take well to domestication. Innovative Fish Farms Aim to Feed the Planet, Save Jobs and Clean Up an Industry’s Dirty Reputation 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z Often called the Neolithic Revolution, the adoption of domestication led some groups to build permanent settlements and support large populations. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Dr. Larson said the new hypothesis was valuable because ideas about domestication have too often concentrated on human actions and intent. Before Chickens Were Nuggets, They Were Revered 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z The researchers speculate that retrieving may have helped dogs’ wolf ancestors hunt, and that humans likely selected for friendly pooches in the early days of dog domestication. Your dog’s breed doesn’t determine its personality, study suggests 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z The domestication of dogs by humans was so inevitable, it may have happened more than once, according to a new study. Genetic study throws stereotypes about dog breeds to the … you know 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z And yet, while Grey does get Steele into his dungeon, ultimately the series is about his slow domestication — her ultimate rejection of his style of sexual dominance. Rags-to-Riches Stories Are Actually Kind of Disturbing 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, hunters’ expert knowledge of wild animals likely played a key role in the domestication, or taming, of animals. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “So we should really not be saying that the domestication was so ancient.” Before Chickens Were Nuggets, They Were Revered 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z The study, he says, doesn’t just question origin myths about modern dog breeding—it challenges a hypothesis about the very beginnings of canine domestication. Gene for ‘toy’ dog breeds found in ancient wolves 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Ethiopia is a major centre of crop domestication in Africa, home to coffee and many other crops. False banana: Is Ethiopia's enset 'wondercrop' for climate change? 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z The kunga is the first known instance of a human-engineered hybrid of two species, a production far beyond the traditional processes of the domestication of animals, the researchers found. The Kunga Was a Status Symbol Long Before the Thoroughbred 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z A recent analysis of 13 Bronze Age canine coprolites reveals how shifts to a grain-based diet affected dogs’ gut microbes, which may have played a role in the animals’ domestication. Fossilized Poop Shows How Ancient Dogs Adapted to People 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z However, he was not completely convinced by the domestication hypothesis offered in the paper, which the authors acknowledged would require further research to confirm. Before Chickens Were Nuggets, They Were Revered 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z This was the earliest archaeological evidence of horse domestication, and seemed promising as the birthplace of modern horses. The Horse You Rode In On May Have Been Made in Southern Russia 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z The first evidence of horse domestication comes earlier, from Kazakhstan, where herders of the Botai culture corralled mares for meat and perhaps milk about 5500 years ago. Ancient DNA reveals the long-sought homeland of modern horses 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z The early process of domestication was always murky — probably part accident, part human intervention — but this research showed what the ancient Syrians were after. The Kunga Was a Status Symbol Long Before the Thoroughbred 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z That supports two conflicting theories about canine domestication. Mysterious, extinct Japanese wolf may hold clues to origins of dogs 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z That could have been a precursor to domestication, he said, and would leave few traces. Before Chickens Were Nuggets, They Were Revered 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z “But the original domestication of crops took hundreds and thousands of years,” he adds. Could this new version of an old grain help fight climate change and feed the world? 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Instead, they were the ancestors of today’s Przewalski’s horses, endangered “wild” horses found only in Mongolia that escaped domestication long ago. Ancient DNA reveals the long-sought homeland of modern horses 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z "This suggests that people learned the intoxicant properties of tobacco relatively early in their time here rather than only with domestication and agriculture thousands of years later." Humans used tobacco 12,300 years ago, new discovery suggests 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z The new study doesn’t provide enough data to say who is right, Savolainen says, but it does argue against other proposed regions of dog domestication, including Western Europe or the Middle East. Mysterious, extinct Japanese wolf may hold clues to origins of dogs 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z “The techniques described can be used in other places to further develop our understanding of how important birds have been to humans, long before the domestication of chickens,” she added. The world’s deadliest bird was raised by people 18,000 years ago 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z They even predate the domestication of camels, a catalyst for economic development in the region. Saudi Arabia camel carvings dated to prehistoric era 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z But there are still “large gaps” in knowledge about its domestication history, it said, in large part because the plant is illegal in many countries. Where Does Weed Come From? A New Study Suggests East Asia. 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z The new study is an important step in understanding how domestication influences animals’ brains, says Erin Hecht, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University. The tamer the cow, the smaller the brain 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z And because the advent of livestock domestication helped pave the way for larger populations and complex societies, he says, “it is really one of the pivotal moments in prehistory.” Oldest livestock genome reveals origin of today’s goats 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z By studying the evolutionary history of these fish in greater detail, the researchers hope to improve our understanding of how domestication alters the genes of species. The 1,000-Year Secret That Made Betta Fish Beautiful 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z But they are one example, Dr. Sykes said, of a process of domestication in which feeding animals was more important at first than eating them. Humans Have Been Sharing Food With Animals for Centuries. Why Is That? 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z “The idea is that stenophylla could be used, with minimum domestication, as a high-value coffee for farmers in warmer climates,” said Davis, head of coffee research at Britain’s Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Scientists rediscover a climate-hardy coffee plant 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z “Our understanding of brain changes during domestication is still in its infancy,” she says. The tamer the cow, the smaller the brain 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z Animal remains—some of which date to about 10,000 years ago—show signs of domestication, such as smaller bodies and shorter horns. Oldest livestock genome reveals origin of today’s goats 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z Drinking animal milk — a practice as old as animal domestication itself — has always presented health risks, from spoilage or by way of infections passed down from the animal. How Humanity Gave Itself an Extra Life 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z But evidence of human interference and domestication abounds, in the tagged ear, the wire fencing, the loose slats of Gunda’s shelter, and, ominously, the grinding gears and dirt-clotted treads of some heavy farm machinery. Review: 'Gunda' proves to be a wordlessly sublime slice of porcine life down on the farm 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z As a result, he contends the new study “can’t say anything” about dog domestication. Ice age Siberian hunters may have domesticated dogs 23,000 years ago 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z The second, she said, was that their hypothesis “flips the idea of domestication” to people feeding animals rather than raising them to eat. The leftovers route to dog domestication 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z “It’s now seeing a recent resurgence of interest in all sorts of domestication issues, with goats being a primary one.” Oldest livestock genome reveals origin of today’s goats 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z The analysis reveals that dog domestication can be traced back 11,000 years, to the end of the last Ice Age. Dogs are humans' oldest companions, DNA shows 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Because dogs had already diversified so much by that time, “domestication had to occur long before then,” Skoglund says. How dogs tracked their humans across the ancient world 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z The findings not only solve a persistent, though obscure puzzle, they may shed light on the complicated and still emerging picture of dog domestication in Asia and Oceania. Singing Dogs Re-emerge From Extinction for Another Tune 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z But perhaps domestication, which prompted a big shift in scenery for these previously wild animals, tamed their tears, too. Could Owl and Crocodilian Tears Lead to a Cure for Your Dry Eyes? 2020-08-13T04:00:00Z This is not the first recent study to offer new insights into phenomena pertaining to canine domestication. Sled dogs have ancient roots 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z If there were multiple domestication events around the world, these other lineages did not contribute their DNA to later dogs. Dogs are humans' oldest companions, DNA shows 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Dogs are one of the biggest enigmas of domestication. How dogs tracked their humans across the ancient world 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z They suggest the lineage that became the modern chicken branched off from the jungle fowl between 12,800 and 6200 years ago, with domestication occurring sometime after the lineages split. The chicken first crossed the road in Southeast Asia, ‘landmark’ gene study finds 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Speaking of domestication, I understand that you are fond of fermentation projects. A Poetic, Mind-Bending Tour of the Fungal World 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z A study released earlier this month revealed that London foxes are developing early signs of domestication including shorter snouts, wider snout tips and smaller brain cases. Sled dogs have ancient roots 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z This led Belyaev to conclude that there are certain physical traits that accompany domestication, a phenomenon he dubbed "domestication syndrome." How foxes are domesticating themselves 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z When the animals moved from the forest to city habitats, they began to evolve doglike traits, new research reveals, potentially setting themselves on the path to domestication. Urban foxes may be self-domesticating in our midst 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Hanotte acknowledges that “we need the help of archaeologists” to understand the human events that triggered domestication. The chicken first crossed the road in Southeast Asia, ‘landmark’ gene study finds 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z The 21st-century domestication of the crowd does not in itself snuff out its power. The power of crowds 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z The study further indicates that wild pheasants lived side by side with people, shedding light on the early domestication process. Earliest ‘Chickens’ Were Actually Pheasants 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z This undercuts the domestication syndrome premise that the syndrome is caused by a single mechanism. How foxes are domesticating themselves 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z All of these changes are typical of what Charles Darwin labeled domestication syndrome. Urban foxes may be self-domesticating in our midst 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z They compared their data with previously gathered genomic information about 131 other domesticated, wild, and ancient goats to determine which parts of the goat genome were important to domestication. Ancient hanky panky gave modern goats their iron stomachs 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z A priority should be sequencing DNA from early farmers from the Yangtze River Basin in southern China, a centre for rice domestication and a potential source of other migrations, she adds. Ancient human genomes shed new light on East Asia's history 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z Biochemistry tests revealed that these pheasants subsisted on a diet heavy in millet, a human-grown crop, suggesting that the birds lived alongside people year-round—a first step toward domestication. Earliest ‘Chickens’ Were Actually Pheasants 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z Indeed, a new study reveals that foxes in London appear to be inadvertently developing signs of domestication. How foxes are domesticating themselves 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z “They never move any farther down the path to domestication,” Zeder says. Urban foxes may be self-domesticating in our midst 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z The paper shows domestication was a dynamic process with genes from other species being gained and lost through the millennia, Zeder says. Ancient hanky panky gave modern goats their iron stomachs 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z About 12,000 years ago, human domestication of the natural world began in earnest with the intentional cultivation of wild plants and animals. We created the Anthropocene, and the Anthropocene is biting back | Alastair Gee, Dani Anguiano 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Barton says the process likely paralleled early chicken domestication: wild birds started interacting closely with humans and eventually formed lasting, interdependent relationships with them. Earliest ‘Chickens’ Were Actually Pheasants 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z Notably, at least one past study on fox domestication later proved controversial among the scientific community. How foxes are domesticating themselves 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z In the District of Columbia, some people even seem to think weightlifting in your yard is a breach of coronavirus domestication. Stay-at-home rules bring out neighbors seeking violations 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z For the past few years China’s leadership has pushed the idea that “wildlife domestication” should be a key part of rural development, eco-tourism and poverty alleviation. Coronavirus closures reveal vast scale of China’s secretive wildlife farm industry 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z But some Palestinians assert that, as a mostly Israeli enterprise, domestication is an attempt to undercut a rare Palestinian cash crop by employing technology to degrade one of the region's last remaining wild foods. For Israelis and Palestinians, a battle over a humble plant 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z True domestication, however, entails physical or genetic change brought about by artificial human selection; the ancient pheasant genomes match modern ones, so these birds were still technically “wild.” Earliest ‘Chickens’ Were Actually Pheasants 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z The recent study, which was published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, found that "urban populations of foxes show variation consistent with 'domestication syndrome.'" How foxes are domesticating themselves 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z “Nova” uses DNA analysis to track the domestication of man’s best friend through the ages in the new episode “Dog Tales.” What’s on TV This Week: The Oscars, 'Homeland' and more 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Dr. Karlsson said that the study of domestication needs “more research like this new paper.” What Wolf Pups That Play Fetch Reveal About Your Dog 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z As an environmental historian, I am exploring both the successes and the failures of this movement as part of a larger historical study of animals that occupy the gray area between wildness and domestication. Victorian efforts to export animals to new worlds failed, mostly 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z Yu Dong, a geneticist at Shandong University in China, who was not involved in the research, says these “very important” findings provide significant insight into the history of domestication. Earliest ‘Chickens’ Were Actually Pheasants 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z Still, MacLean agrees that this sort of primitive fetch is just the kind of thing domestication could have turned into the full-fledged behavior we see in dogs today. Watch wolf puppies stun scientists by playing fetch 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z The museum is not a common destination for evolutionary biologists who specialize in domestication. Why Are These Foxes Tame? Maybe They Weren’t So Wild to Begin With 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z But the Russian experiment fell short of proving the existence of domestication syndrome, they argue, because Belyaev’s first foxes were far from wild, and there’s no proof certain physical features are common to domesticated species. Tame foxes taught us about animal domestication. But did we get the story wrong? 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z A new study—citing genetic evidence from a disorder that mirrors elements of domestication—suggests modern humans domesticated themselves after they split from their extinct relatives, Neanderthals and Denisovans, approximately 600,000 years ago. Top stories: ‘Blue energy,’ monkey retirement, and the nitrogen crisis paralyzing the Dutch economy 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Wrangham cautions that many different genes likely play a role in domestication, so we shouldn’t read too much into the evolutionary importance of BAZ1B. Early humans domesticated themselves, new genetic evidence suggests 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z It’s such an advanced skill, in fact, that many scientists think it could have arisen only over thousands of years of domestication. Watch wolf puppies stun scientists by playing fetch 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z He, Dr. Lord and their colleagues looked at 10 papers that defined domestication syndrome and found that there wasn’t one trait that was included in all the definitions. Why Are These Foxes Tame? Maybe They Weren’t So Wild to Begin With 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Genetic testing indicated they originated in eastern Canada, probably at a fur farm on Prince Edward Island, which means the animals were already on the path toward domestication. Tame foxes taught us about animal domestication. But did we get the story wrong? 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z The variation is equivalent to “what you’d see in a wild population, freely moving and freely interbreeding” she said, and undercuts the domestication theory. Millions of Ibises Were Mummified. But Where Did Ancient Egypt Get Them? 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z William Tecumseh Fitch III, an evolutionary biologist and cognitive scientist at the University of Vienna in Austria, says he is skeptical of “precise parallels” between human self-domestication and animal domestication. Early humans domesticated themselves, new genetic evidence suggests 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z “If ancient humans were able to form a similar connection with some wolves, it may have started them on the path to domestication.” Watch wolf puppies stun scientists by playing fetch 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z But that was not surprising, he added, given other research showing varying processes of domestication. Why Are These Foxes Tame? Maybe They Weren’t So Wild to Begin With 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z “Our main point is not that domestication syndrome doesn’t exist, but just that we don’t think there is enough evidence to be confident it does exist,” said Karlsson in a follow-up email. Tame foxes taught us about animal domestication. But did we get the story wrong? 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z California’s wild eschews domestication, as evidenced by seasons of drought and runaway wildfires. California writers explore our past, promises in a trio of books 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Over the ensuing millennia of domestication and cultivation, traditional farmers created a treasure trove of landraces that were perfectly adapted to diverse soils, topographies and microclimates and suited to specific cultural, nutritional or medicinal needs. The Struggle to Save Heirloom Rice in India 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z That ignition point happened right as the domestication of oxen was becoming widespread, around 4,000 B.C. Capital in the 21st century (B.C., that is) 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z But “many aspects of the fox domestication experiment were not presented correctly,” she added. Why Are These Foxes Tame? Maybe They Weren’t So Wild to Begin With 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z “This paper to me shows that new, better designed experiments on domestication — of several kinds of animals — are needed to advance the field forward.” Tame foxes taught us about animal domestication. But did we get the story wrong? 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Dr. Frantz said, “The first 2,000 years of domestication that takes place in Anatolia left almost no trace in the modern genome of domestic pigs.” An Archaeological Puzzle on the Danube 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z The Soviets promised to lift Chukchi from timeless stasis into conscious, historical action, not seeing in Chukchi histories of war and domestication a people who already understood the future as theirs to shape. When the Soviet Union Freed the Arctic from Capitalist Slavery 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z New research shows that dogs have developed a muscle to raise their eyebrows and make adorable sad puppy dog eyes over thousands of years of domestication. The Daily 202: Steve Bullock won’t be on the debate stage. But he’ll keep talking about his signature issue. 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z The eyebrow finding raises the possibility that puppy-dog eyes aren’t something humans chose, but instead that they were a byproduct of domestication. Scientists think they know why dogs have eyes that tug at our hearts 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z “I think there are big questions,” she says,” about how domestication shapes behavior in all sorts of species.” Domestication Made Dogs' Facial Anatomy More Fetching to Humans 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z Cannabis had two separate phases of domestication, Spengler said. Archaeologists find signs of ritualized cannabis use 2,500 years ago in China 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z The Chinese government passed a law that banned killing endangered species in the wild while encouraging their “domestication” and breeding. The man risking his life to expose the destruction of the tiger “Nova” tracks the domestication of the wild horse millenniums ago in the new episode “First Horse Warriors.” What’s on TV, May 12-18: ‘Catch-22,’ ‘L.A.’s Finest’ and more 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z It also may eventually offer insight into how domestication transformed wild animals into our best friends, and even hint at how the human mind itself changed over the course of evolution. Cats rival dogs on many tests of social smarts. But is anyone brave enough to study them? 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z The mingling slowed full domestication but added genetic variation to the millet. Plant studies show where Africa's early farmers tamed some of the continent's key crops 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z The wild plant is naturally very low in THC, and there is no evidence that the earlier domestication was tied to a desire to inhale the smoke. Archaeologists find signs of ritualized cannabis use 2,500 years ago in China 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Cats appeared in human lives seemingly unbidden, sauntering in at the dawn of agricultural settlement but maintaining their distance from total domestication. Australia Is Deadly Serious About Killing Millions of Cats 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z The result is a deep dive into fox genetics and the future of domestication, and it’s one of our most popular videos to date. Verge Science just won a Webby Award 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z Both species seem to have evolved the same skills to live alongside us, however, suggesting those skills are crucial to domestication. Cats rival dogs on many tests of social smarts. But is anyone brave enough to study them? 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z In Africa, as elsewhere, crop domestication was a long, drawn-out process. Plant studies show where Africa's early farmers tamed some of the continent's key crops 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z But the slow pace of that move suggests to researchers that this process of domestication likely got started by accident. Ancient goat urine reveals how Anatolian farmers began domesticating their herds 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z The collections are also invaluable for studying plant domestication, historic climate change, and shifts in geographical distributions of species. Historians expose early scientists’ debt to the slave trade 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z He’s currently reading Tamed, a book about the domestication of the 10 most important species to mankind. The art of edible bacteria: Noma's David Zilber on the slow magic of fermentation 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z Until then, social cognition researchers had paid little attention to dogs, thinking their minds had been "corrupted" by thousands of years of domestication. Cats rival dogs on many tests of social smarts. But is anyone brave enough to study them? 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z In Huck’s sweet accent, Twain captures the spirit of an adolescent nation determined to resist domestication and to keep exploring the unknown. Perspective | The 23 most unforgettable last sentences in fiction 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Despite tea’s ubiquity in ancient and modern societies, the history of the tea plant’s domestication is not entirely clear. Tea 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z The other problem when defining domestication is that tea varieties are still being refined. The growth of tea 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Wrangham addresses this question by assessing fascinating evidence from studies of primates, foxes, domesticated animals and hominid fossils to reconstruct the process of our domestication as a species. Review | Humans evolved to be peaceful. Why are we still so violent? 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z The show explores, among other subjects, humanity’s complex relationship to the evolution of animals through domestication. Answering the call of the wild with Isabella Rossellini and her ‘Link Link Circus’ 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z These newcomers were known to exploit many of the cutting-edge technologies of the time: the domestication of horses, the wheel and, perhaps most salient, axes and spearheads of copper. Is Ancient DNA Research Revealing New Truths — or Falling Into Old Traps? 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z The new findings revealed a previously unknown but pivotal second phase of domestication occurred in the southwestern Amazon region spanning parts of Brazil and Bolivia even as domestication continued in Mexico. A-maize-ing genetic sleuthing rewrites history of corn 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z They claim livestock lost those abilities as a result of domestication. Animals Can Help Us Rediscover Our Nutritional Wisdom 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z However, contrary to the domestication hypothesis, they are far from unique in this ability. Your Dog May Not be A Genius, After All 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z A: One of the best ways to look at early domestication is through reconstruction of ancient diets. The turkey on your Thanksgiving table is older than you think 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z The tobacco Euro-Americans used for trade originated in the Andes of South America, where the domestication process began as much as 8,000 years ago. Research finds Nez Perce tobacco use pre-dates trappers 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z The southwestern Amazon already was a hotspot for crop domestication when partially domesticated corn was brought there, with squash, yuca and a native rice being cultivated. A-maize-ing genetic sleuthing rewrites history of corn 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Archeological evidence indicates cacao domestication moved into Central America and Mexico about 4,000 years ago. Ecuadorean discovery pushes back the origins of chocolate 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z According to the domestication hypothesis, dogs have been bred to be especially sensitive to human cues such as hand signals. Your Dog May Not be A Genius, After All 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z The theme that really emerges in terms of animal domestication in Mesoamerica is that it’s not necessarily about food. The turkey on your Thanksgiving table is older than you think 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z That’s about 1,500 years older than cacao’s known domestication in Central America. How old is cacao? New research pushes back date 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Nobody knows exactly how long humans have cultivated the soybean, but agricultural historians are quite certain its domestication as a crop in China dates back three millennia. Recent editorials published in Iowa newspapers 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Maize domestication began here about 9000 years ago, and Mexico now boasts at least 59 native varieties, called landraces, each exquisitely adapted to regional environmental and climatic conditions. Mexico’s new science minister is a plant biologist who opposes transgenic crops 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Scientists are uncovering new clues to the origins of domestication in an unlikely creature: foxes. These domesticated foxes were 60 years in the making 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Their study, published in the September issue of the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, lends insight into how domestication of our four-legged companions was steered by interactions with humans and their cultural practices. Ritual Sacrifice May Have Shaped Dog Domestication 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z But determining how such genes might fit into domestication is a very complicated enterprise, Dr. Kukekova said. Friendly Foxes’ Genes Offer Hints to How Dogs Became Domesticated 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Although largely accurate in its depiction of the roots of canine domestication in a hunting context, it is not above corniness. Review | ‘Alpha’ is a boy-meets-wolf love story, set in the Ice Age. And yes, it works. 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z This study in animal domestication, known as the Russian farm-fox experiment, might be just a fascinating historical footnote — a quirky corner in the otherwise fraught scientific heritage of Soviet Russia. A Soviet-era experiment to tame foxes may help reveal genes behind social behavior 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z That suggests that as the foxes undergo domestication, their genes are changing in ways that might aid in learning and memory, the researchers write. These docile foxes may hold some of the genetic keys to domestication 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Understanding this relationship is the key to learning more about how domestication happened, both in the Siberian Arctic and elsewhere in the world. Ritual Sacrifice May Have Shaped Dog Domestication 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z Tame foxes offer a tantalizing window into the nature of domestication. Friendly Foxes’ Genes Offer Hints to How Dogs Became Domesticated 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Banana domestication, which goes back at least 7,000 years, involved the selection by farmers of plants that produced bananas with fewer, smaller seeds. Science’s search for a super banana 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z Higher levels of neurohormones such as serotonin were also part of the domestication package. Can these birds explain how language first evolved? 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z “This, in the end, might be what domestication is.” These docile foxes may hold some of the genetic keys to domestication 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z “Genetic and bodily changes are not a cause but a consequence of domestication,” says Losey. Ritual Sacrifice May Have Shaped Dog Domestication 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z This enterprise, which typically lasts well over a decade, serves as a systematic exercise in human domestication. Can Economists and Humanists Ever Be Friends? 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z It tries to make sense of a cataclysmic earthbound event that happened long ago, before written language, before the domestication of horses, before the first Egyptian mummies and the rise of civilization in Crete. Rising seas: 'Florida is about to be wiped off the map' 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z But there's no clear path yet from these genes to their function—or to the sweeping changes linked to domestication, cautions Antonio Benítez-Burraco, a linguist at the University of Seville in Spain. Can these birds explain how language first evolved? 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z But he says that what Andersson’s team did is “a good approximation of what occurred when the first domestication happened and is an important subject in evolutionary studies.” Why your pet rabbit is more docile than its wild relative 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Since the archaeological record suggests a swift transition to horse domestication, she says, the lack of evidence that the Botai mixed with other cultures is even more mysterious. Ancient DNA Study Pokes Holes in Horse Domestication Theory 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Some of their most provocative ideas are in the area of education, which they believe is a form of domestication. Can Economists and Humanists Ever Be Friends? 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z And the domestication of certain animals – along with the domestication of wild grains and vegetables – marked the beginning of human agricultural history in the “fertile crescent”. What is the true cost of eating meat? 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z "A book that helps us understand the rose, its history and its journey through evolution and domestication." Genetic secrets of the rose revealed 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z Scholars long thought that the capability to construct and victual a watercraft and then navigate it to a distant coast arrived only with advent of agriculture and animal domestication. Neandertals, Stone Age people may have voyaged the Mediterranean 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z In many parts of the world, animal domestication played an important role in feeding growing cities and societies. Ancient Maya Dog Trade Goes Back 2,400 Years 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z Comparative population genomics of maize domestication and improvement. Dysregulation of expression correlates with rare-allele burden and fitness loss in maize 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z “The domestication of the horse created a steppe bridge into India and Iran on the one side and Europe on the other side,” Anthony says. New Evidence Fuels Debate over the Origin of Modern Languages 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z The research, says Lindholm, provides a window into how domestication started for mice. ‘Self-domesticating’ mice suggest some animals tamed themselves without human intervention 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z The domestication of donkeys is only one of her areas of interest. It’s a Dog’s World, Especially in the Lab. Where Are the Cats? 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Markings on horse teeth indicate that the Botai tethered the horses with bits and either rode or herded them, suggesting some degree of domestication. Ancient DNA upends the horse family tree 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Greger Larson, a biologist at the University of Oxford who studies domestication, recalled hearing about Pope Gregory at a conference a few years ago. Legend held that monks domesticated rabbits for food. The truth is more complex. 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z Nonetheless, in 1963, another writer, Frederick E. Zeuner, in another book on domestication, added to the mistake and said the fetal rabbits were not considered meat. Debunked: The Strange Tale of Pope Gregory and the Rabbits 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Nearly 100 years earlier, Charles Darwin dubbed this suite of traits “domestication syndrome.” ‘Self-domesticating’ mice suggest some animals tamed themselves without human intervention 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z An incredible surprise, considering that the Southern Anatolia and Transcaucasian region were traditionally believed to be the cradle of grape domestication and early viticulture. Prehistoric Wine Discovered in Inaccessible Caves Forces a Rethink of Ancient Sicilian Culture 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z “I expected to catch evolution red-handed, when domestication first started,” Orlando recalls. Ancient DNA upends the horse family tree 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z In Larson's view, this represents a split in wild populations, as Ice Age glaciers moved, and does not show effects of domestication. Legend held that monks domesticated rabbits for food. The truth is more complex. 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z With that story debunked, Dr. Larson says, the whole business of rabbit domestication is unclear. Debunked: The Strange Tale of Pope Gregory and the Rabbits 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z In some ways, these entrepreneurs are delivering to us what Dr. Uma Valeti, CEO of the clean meat start-up Memphis Meats, calls the “second domestication.” Lab-Grown Meat Is On the Way 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z Here we show that wealth disparities generally increased with the domestication of plants and animals and with increased sociopolitical scale, using Gini coefficients computed over the single consistent proxy of house-size distributions. Greater post-Neolithic wealth disparities in Eurasia than in North America and Mesoamerica 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Dubcovsky, J. & Dvorak, J. Genome plasticity a key factor in the success of polyploid wheat under domestication. Genome sequence of the progenitor of the wheat D genome Aegilops tauschii 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Dog ancestors began making quick eye contact with humans relatively early on in domestication, but the tendency to hold those bond-building gazes is a more recent development, scientists reported in October in Animal Behaviour. Puppy-Dog Eyes May Have Evolved in Stages 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z And he said, it indicates an underlying, and mistaken view of domestication as an event, not a process. Debunked: The Strange Tale of Pope Gregory and the Rabbits 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z "We believe this is the oldest example of the domestication of a wild-growing Eurasian grapevine solely for the production of wine," said co-author Stephen Batiuk, a senior researcher at the University of Toronto. Georgia made 'world's oldest wine' 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z Researchers say the Georgian wine was based on a Eurasian species that did undergo domestication and formed the basis for the vast majority of wine today. Talk about vintage: Pottery shards show 8,000-year-old wine 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z The artist van Lieshout insisted his sculpture was in no way explicit, saying it was about highlighting “the questions raised by domestication in our world” and was not intended to elicit a sexual interpretation. Too rude for Paris? 'Copulating' sculpture causes stir in French capital 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z His team was looking for hints of cassava domestication and for clues to when maize farming spread to the Amazon. Rice so nice it was domesticated thrice 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z The domestication of rabbits, he believes, involves a long interaction with humans. Debunked: The Strange Tale of Pope Gregory and the Rabbits 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z The authors describe juvenile facial characteristics as a component of the so-called domestication syndrome, and it does distinguish us from our closest living relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos. Readers Respond to the May 2017 Issue 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z It uses that information to create a detailed snapshot of a crop in the middle of domestication. Ancient genomes shows how maize adapted to life at high altitudes 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z He insisted that his work defined the domestication of animals by humans for agriculture and industry, highlighting the ethical issues surrounding that. Too rude for Paris? 'Copulating' sculpture causes stir in French capital 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Despite widespread consumption of wild rice by indigenous peoples, scant evidence supported the grain’s domestication in the New World. Rice so nice it was domesticated thrice 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z All of this is the story of their domestication. Debunked: The Strange Tale of Pope Gregory and the Rabbits 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z So now the White House joins the Senate and the House in the forced domestication of Donald Trump. Trump Removes Anthony Scaramucci From Communications Director Role 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Plant evolutionary biologist Robin Allaby of the University of Warwick, UK looks forward to seeing the same approach applied to earlier stages of maize domestication. Ancient genomes shows how maize adapted to life at high altitudes 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z The contrast with farming societies, which dominated history after the domestication of plants and animals about 10,000 years ago, is stark. Living off the land 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z They’re tantalizing clues in the mystery of dog domestication So vonHoldt and her team decided to start with that stretch of genes, plotting the behavioral test results against the genetic sequences. Why do dogs love us? Geneticists hunt for DNA clues 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z Early efforts at nailing down the time and place of domestication varied wildly. Untangling the Mystery of How Fido Became Humankind's Best Friend 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z In a new study in the journal Nature Communications, Veeramah and his colleagues write that the most plausible explanation was a single instance of domestication. Your dog’s ancestor came from a group of wolves 40,000 years ago, study says 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z The latest research offers a little clarity on the timing of domestication and on the dual or single origin question. Ancient genomes heat up dog domestication debate 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Moreover, domestication pushed these strains through a genetic bottleneck, forcing them to produce more and more alcohol while simultaneously losing their traits needed for survival in the wild. The Beers and the Bees: Pollinators Provide a Different Kind of Brewer's Yeast 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z But they are tantalizing clues in the mystery of dog domestication. Why do dogs love us? Geneticists hunt for DNA clues 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z “I think studying more about this species is going to open up even more about the domestication process.” Cats Domesticated Themselves, Ancient DNA Shows 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z The new research also demonstrated the meandering path of domestication. Your dog’s ancestor came from a group of wolves 40,000 years ago, study says 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z The latest analysis also add weight to previous research that moves the timing of domestication back as far as 40,000 years ago. Ancient genomes heat up dog domestication debate 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Ikram says a dual domestication makes sense, as other animals—including dogs and pigs—may also have been domesticated more than once. Ancient Egyptians may have given cats the personality to conquer the world 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z It is easy to grasp why many New Yorkers will not embrace their domestication. From the Subways to the Sofa: Pet Rats 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Horse domestication began about 5,500 years ago. Long-frozen DNA shows how humans made horses faster — and more likely to get sick 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z The findings also fit an emerging theory of how domestication in general changes animals as they become intertwined with humans. Ancient Horse DNA Shows Scythian Warriors Were Adept Domesticators 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z That extends to what was probably the first period of domestication for canines in hunter-gatherer times. Dog family tree reveals hidden history of canine diversity 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z “There’s no reason to believe an independent domestication in Egypt.” Ancient Egyptians may have given cats the personality to conquer the world 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z But there's no question that the domestication of the cat in Egypt and Mesopotamia, around the same time as the development of agriculture there, represented a big change for T. gondii — and an opportunity. Parasites: Kitty carriers : Nature : Nature Research 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Orlando and his colleagues chose to sequence Scythian stallions for several reasons: The animals lived about halfway through the 5,500-year timeline of horse domestication. Long-frozen DNA shows how humans made horses faster — and more likely to get sick 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z “This begins to support a sort of grand unified theory of domestication.” Ancient Horse DNA Shows Scythian Warriors Were Adept Domesticators 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z And it's surprising because it happened before widespread agriculture, the event that scientists traditionally associate with the origins of domestication. Mice have been infesting homes ever since humans started building them 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Dogs and horses changed coat patterns much earlier in their domestication, suggesting that when it came to cats, people were more interested in how they acted than in how they looked. Ancient Egyptians may have given cats the personality to conquer the world 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z Bon attributed this to humanity’s prejudice against “so dispicable an Insect,” but the more practical reason is that spiders have proved resistant to domestication. In the Future, We’ll All Wear Spider Silk 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z As a rule, domesticated mammals develop coats of varied colors and floppy ears; this is sometimes called the “domestication syndrome.” Long-frozen DNA shows how humans made horses faster — and more likely to get sick 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z “It demonstrates the power of ancient whole genomes to understand the pattern and the process of domestication.” Ancient Horse DNA Shows Scythian Warriors Were Adept Domesticators 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z “Living in one place was a really important factor affecting the beginnings of domestication,” Marshall said, “and it happened earlier than we thought.” Mice have been infesting homes ever since humans started building them 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z The view of plants as passive organisms that consume sunlight, produce oxygen and create soothing sensory environments is all down to our ancestors' domestication of a handful of wild species. Plant science: The plant as pugilist : Nature : Nature Research 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z It said the grey slate cart lodge would cause "considerable harm" and "present a creeping domestication" to the surrounding area. Ed Sheeran granted permission for parking lodge at Suffolk home - BBC News 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z Orlando is more interested in history than in rewinding the harmful effects of domestication, which he said would be a fruitless effort. Long-frozen DNA shows how humans made horses faster — and more likely to get sick 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z With the grant funding, archaeologists, biologists, anthropologists, historians and others have been examining the history of chickens’ domestication, which happened at least 5,000 years ago, as well as their travels around the globe. Chickens ‘changed the world.’ So why do we ignore them? 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z They were buried in a place of importance, “where the highest lords would be,” said Fiona Marshall, an archaeologist at Washington University in St. Louis who studies the domestication of donkeys. Where’s the Love for Donkeys? 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z It maintained it would cause "considerable harm" and "present a creeping domestication" to the surrounding area. Ed Sheeran fights case for parking lodge at Suffolk home - BBC News 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z This is the political domestication and co-optation of the once-vexing global warming hypothesis. As Al Gore Told Donald Trump . . . 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z Rubio, who returned from Thailand on Aug. 8, continues to educate herself about elephant domestication through an independent study. College student works at elephant sanctuary in Thailand 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z He and his colleagues published their results in The Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports in a paper that was published online in July and will appear in print in an upcoming issue on turkey domestication. Thanksgiving Turkeys May Have Been Tamed 1,500 Years Ago in Mexico 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z But in a dramatic example of the power of domestication, beginning some 9000 years ago people in Mexico and the U.S. 5000-year-old cobs reveal corn domestication in the act 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Farming by early civilisations started a process of domestication that produced the sweet yellow corn we use today for food or fuel. Ancient corn cob shows how maize conquered the world - BBC News 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z But others argue that domestication started later, when wolves stole food leftovers from settlements and began to live alongside people. Dog's dinner: DNA clue to how dogs became our friends - BBC News 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z They wrote that in a perfect world, the domestication of animals would be completely eradicated. Rutgers law professors say pets are ‘animal slaves,’ argue ownership is form of torture 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z “It seems that it pushes domestication back another 100 to 200 years,” he said. Thanksgiving Turkeys May Have Been Tamed 1,500 Years Ago in Mexico 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z The authors proposed that this gene variant was critical for domestication because it was in all domesticated chickens. How an ancient pope helped make chickens fat 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Peru's northern coast, however, is believed to be the earliest area of cotton domestication. The Super-Ancient Origins of Your Blue Jeans 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Intriguingly, all these signs of domestication were far stronger in the 102 brewing strains that the researchers studied than those in the wine strains. Domesticated tipple 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Others think they served as prehistoric rodeo corrals for the domestication of wild animals during the late Neolithic. Giant ‘Arrows’ Seen From Space Point to a Vanished World 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z And still, civilization barrels forward — toward the invention of writing, the rise of empires, the domestication of horses, the discovery of chocolate. The very last mammoths were dying for a drink 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z The discovery of these seeds takes us closer in time to the original domestication of barley than ever before. Ancient barley DNA gives insight into crop development - BBC News 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z This process of "domestication" led to an explosion in the popularity of both tea and sugar. The dark history behind India and the UK's favourite drink - BBC News 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z The evidence suggests that yeast domestication began in the 1500s and was more pronounced in brewing than it was in winemaking. Domesticated tipple 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Bull and his co-author, Martine Maron of the University of Queensland, identify four main forces of speciation — relocation, domestication, hunting and novel ecosystem creation — and offer examples of each. Humans are driving the evolution of new species — and that could be just as bad as causing extinctions 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z This eventually led to the discovery and 'domestication' of their healthy physiological counterparts, the embryonic stem cells that generate all tissue types in early embryos. Cancer therapy: Defining stemness : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Their original domestication, the study says, occurred near the start of the Holocene in the Near East, but soon they’d been transported all over the place. There’s basically no landscape on Earth that humans haven’t altered 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z The rise of agriculture saw the domestication of many types of flora and fauna, which were dispersed worldwide. There’s No Such Thing as Pristine Nature 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z The scientists hypothesize that this split is due to two cases of domestication from distinct wolf populations. Ancient genomes suggest dual origin for modern dogs 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Dogs arose from the domestication of wolves, and research released Thursday, June 2, 2016 by the journal Science suggests this happened twice, once in Asia and also in either Europe or the Near East. Study suggests dogs first appeared in 2 places in Eurasia 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Some of today’s dogs may carry genetic traces of that early domestication—but it’s hard to find, in part because scientists are still trying to recover DNA from those ancient German dogs. Dogs may have been domesticated more than once 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z What if domestication of ancient wolves happened in both Asia and Europe — different wolves, different people? Where Did Dogs Come From? There May be Two Answers. 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z First tamed by humans about 6000 years ago, horses today bear distinct marks of their early domestication. Frozen Scythian stallions unravel mysteries of horse domestication 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z |
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