Sentences with phrase «from early domestication»

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

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Furthermore, a Sumerian text from Nippur from the same early period gives clear evidence of domestication of the camel by then, by its allusions to camel's milk... For the early and middle second millennium BC, only limited use is presupposed by either the biblical or external evidence until the twelfth century BC.

«Archaeological excavation unearths evidence of turkey domestication 1,500 years ago: Eggshells and bones from baby turkeys among earliest evidence for turkey domestication.»

A 33,000 - year - old incipient dog from the Altai Mountains of Siberia: Evidence of the earliest domestication disrupted by the Last Glacial Maximum.

Instead, phylogenetic analysis shows Przewalski's horses are feral, descended from the earliest - known instance of horse domestication by the Botai people of northern Kazakhstan some 5,500 years ago.

Remains from Kazakhstan's more than 5,000 - year - old Botai culture have yielded the earliest direct evidence for domestication of these versatile beasts, scientists report.

One established center of turkey domestication was central Mexico, where the bones of Meleagris gallopavo — ancestors of the turkeys we eat today — have been found from as early as about 800 B.C.E. alongside ancient turkey pens and fossilized poop containing traces of corn, suggesting the birds were kept and fed.

«These associations support the hypothesis that Nosema escaped into wild populations from heavily infected commercial colonies, at least during the earlier years of bumble bee domestication in the U.S.,» she said.

But none of the phytoliths and starch grains at Xihuatoxtla come from the stalk; even at this very early period of domestication, the team found, the people who used the shelter were grinding the kernels.

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.

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.

By providing stable access to human shelter and food, hunter - gatherers led house mice down the path to commensalism, an early phase of domestication in which a species learns how to benefit from human interaction.

We therefore sequenced two ancient horse genomes from Taymyr, Russia (at 7.4 - and 24.3-fold coverage), both predating the earliest archeological evidence of domestication.

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).

That would explain why earlier DNA studies reported that all modern dogs were descended from one domestication event, and also the existence of evidence of two domestication event from two different far - flung locations.

Flink et al. (2014) typed the TSHR and BCDO2 loci in archaeological chicken samples from Europe, spanning the last 2,200 years, to further examine the hypothesis of selection during early domestication.

Researchers have discovered what they believe to be the earliest evidence of cat domestication unearthed from a Chinese village, dating back to the Stone Age.

But neither the time nor the location of the first domestication is known: fossils place the earliest dogs anywhere from 33,000 years ago in Siberia to 11,000 years ago in Israel, whereas DNA studies of modern dogs put domestication at least 10,000 years ago, and in either Southeast Asia or the Middle East.