Sentences with phrase «early domestication stages»

This contrasts with the Cost - of - domestication hypothesis, which posits a negative impact starting from early domestication stages.

However, early domestication stages, as represented by the Sintashta and Scythian genomes, did not have such an impact.

Finally, the researchers developed a novel statistical method to investigate the genome data for signatures of positive selection in early domestication stages.

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Given the stage domestication had reached by the time the camels and their owners crossed the sea, some additional time must be allowed for earlier stages.

That finding challenges the idea that only a few stallions participated in the early stages of domestication.

«We observed that a large number of genes were involved in pathways related to wound healing, immunity, and metabolism, and this is consistent with the idea that the earliest stages of domestication may involve adapting to highly crowded conditions,» said Mark Christie, lead author of the study.

The Guilá Naquitz cobs appear to be from an early stage of domestication, Benz says, because they don't have the multiple rows of seeds that characterize the later corn from Tehuacán.

This admixture could have occurred before domestication or during the early stages of the domestication process, following restocking from the wild as previously suggested (13, 32, 33).