Sentences with phrase «humans during domestication»

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During the process of domestication, plants undergo changes in certain traits that make them more amenable to humans and agriculture such as larger seeds, larger fruits, a compact growth habit, and so on.

Researchers concluded that the brow raises made even older dogs look puppylike and friendly, a trait that would have made them more appealing to humans during their millennia - long domestication.

«I seriously doubt that cat facial expression was subjected to selection during domestication,» he says, because humans kept cats around to catch vermin, not to be bosom buddies.

This new work on black rice helps explain the history of domestication of rice by ancient humans, during which they selected for desirable traits including grain color.

During their domestication from their wild ancestor the wolf to the pets we have today, dogs have developed a unique ability to work together with humans.

Wolves were domesticated more than 15,000 years ago and it is widely assumed that the ability of domestic dogs to form close relationships with humans stems from changes during the domestication process.

Although this rock art gives us a better sense of how humans interacted with dogs during this time, it's possible that dogs were domesticated much earlier — possibly between 15,000 and 30,000 years ago — and the domestication process maybe have happened more than once.

Several domestication events likely occurred during this time, although these may have occurred more at the instigation of the ever - adaptable cat than by any specific selective strategy of human residents.

Secondly, as dogs are able to engage with humans in joint attention (Miklósi et al. 2003) and can cooperate to achieve goal - directed actions (Range and Virányi 2014), it is possible that humans selected dogs for characteristics that promoted social communication during domestication, including attentive and affiliative preference for DDS.