The domestication of plants and animals over the past 11,500 years has had a significant
effect not just on the domesticated taxa but also on human evolution and on the biosphere …

This article aims to summarize the present archaeo (zoo) logical knowledge and reflections
on the origins of Neolithic animal domestication. It targets the main characteristics of early …

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Traditionally, the process of domestication is assumed to be initiated by humans, involve few
individuals and rely on reproductive isolation between wild and domestic forms. We …

In the last thirty years, there have been fierce debates over how civilizations develop and
why the West became so powerful. The Measure of Civilization presents a brand-new way of …

The fundamental shift associated with the domestication of plants and animals allowed for a
dramatic increase in human population sizes and the emergence of modern society. Despite …

The Neolithic Revolution began 11,000 years ago in the Near East and preceded a
westward migration into Europe of distinctive cultural groups and their agricultural …

Despite the growing importance of farmed fish for contemporary economies, the origins of
aquaculture are poorly known. Although it is widely assumed that fish domestication began …

Zooarcheological evidence suggests that pigs were domesticated in Southwest Asia∼
8,500 BC. They then spread across the Middle and Near East and westward into Europe …

Archaeological evidence indicates that pig domestication had begun by∼ 10,500 y before
the present (BP) in the Near East, and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) suggests that pigs …