Sentences with phrase «of animal domestication»
Marshall, an expert on the early origins of animal domestication, has conducted extensive research on the domestication of donkeys.
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And Dr. Ludovic Orlando from the Centre for GeoGenetics at the University of Copenhagen concludes: «Perhaps even more exciting as it represents the hallmark of animal domestication, we identify genes controlling animal behavior and the response to fear.
The new information about when turkeys were domesticated helps amplify the bigger picture of animal domestication in Mesoamerica.
Taming the Past: Ancient DNA and the study of animal domestication.
Greger Larson and Dorian Fuller / The Evolution of Animal Domestication / The Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 45:115 - 36, 2014
«The story of animal domestication retold: Scientists now think wild animals interbred with domesticated ones until quite recently.»
Her current research interests are the patterns of evolutionary transformations at the early steps of animal domestication.
To test ideas of animal domestication, a bold experiment in Siberia put evolution on a fast track
Study provides earliest evidence of animal domestication and treatment in early Latin America
«They suggest that the roots of animal domestication go back to human sedentism thousands of years prior to what has long been considered the dawn of agriculture.»
House cats also show none of the typical signs of animal domestication, such as infantilization of facial features, decreased tooth size, and docility.
The first known examples of animal domestication occurred in western Asia between 11,000 and 9,500 years ago when goats and sheep were first herded, whereas examples of plant domestication date to 9,000 years ago when wheat, lentils, rye, and barley were first cultivated.
As part of her otherwise excellent article on the origins of animal domestication (28 May, p 32), Pat Shipman wrote...
The origins of animal domestication and husbandry: a major change in the history of humanity and the biosphere