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Mar. 23, 2021 Domestication has a consistent effect on the gut microbiota of animals and is similar to the effects of industrialisation in human populations, with ecological differences such as diet having a ...
Jan. 21, 2021 A new Cornell University study found that harmful mutations in sorghum landraces - early domesticated crops - decreased compared to their wild relatives through the course of domestication and ...
May 18, 2021 Fields of opium poppies once bloomed where the Zurich Opera House underground garage now stands. Through a new analysis of archaeological seeds, researchers have been able to bolster the hypothesis ...
Jan. 3, 2023 Researchers have shown that zebrafish can provide genetic baz1b clues to the evolution of social behaviors in humans and domesticated ...
Apr. 4, 2023 Human culture and language may be the result of 'self-domestication': an evolutionary process that leads to less aggressive and more prosocial individuals. A research team argues that ...
Apr. 10, 2023 Borrowing a page from what we know about animal behavior, archaeologists say that we should reassess our understanding of the process of plant ...
Nov. 28, 2022 Wolf domestication occurred earlier than proposed until now, at least in western Europe. That possibility is raised by the results of the study of the humerus found in the Erralla cave (Gipuzkoa, ...
Dec. 17, 2020 Animals that have never been domesticated, such as kangaroos, can intentionally communicate with humans, challenging the notion that this behavior is usually restricted to domesticated animals like ...
July 21, 2021 Rabbits were raised for over a thousand years in Mexico without becoming domesticated. A new study finds that their solitary lifestyle and greater species diversity made domestication ...
Dec. 7, 2022 A new study analyzing stone tools from southern China provides the earliest evidence of rice harvesting, dating to as early as 10,000 years ago. The researchers identified two methods of harvesting ...