Abstract Starting with dogs, over 15,000 years ago, the domestication of animals has been
central in the development of modern societies. Because of its importance for a range of …

During the last decade, ancient DNA research has been revolutionized by the availability of
increasingly powerful DNA sequencing and ancillary genomics technologies, giving rise to …

In recent years, archaeological, archaeozoological and population genetic studies have
increasingly converged on a southwest Asian origin for the four Neolithic farm animals …

Animal domestication has fascinated biologists since Charles Darwin first drew the parallel
between evolution via natural selection and human-mediated breeding of livestock and …

The recent ability to extract genetic data from archaeological remains of wild and domestic
animals has opened up a new window onto the history and process of domestication. This …

The domestication of animals led to a major shift in human subsistence patterns, from a
hunter–gatherer to a sedentary agricultural lifestyle, which ultimately resulted in the …

Domestication is the result of a complex interplay of both biological and cultural processes.
The mechanism underlying today's variety of domesticates has long sparked the interest of …

Archaeological evidence has long placed the origins of the domestic dog (Canis lupus
familiaris) just prior to the beginning of the Holocene Epoch, some 12,000–15,000 years …

Ancient DNA has been discovered in many types of preserved biological material, including
bones, mummies, museum skins, insects in amber and plant fossils, and has become an …

We report palaeogenetic analysis of domesticated dog (Canis familiaris) remains excavated
from three archaeological sites from southeast France and dating from Middle Neolithic …