Domestication, a process of increasing mutual dependence between human societies and
the plant and animal populations they target, has long been an area of interest in genetics …

As a unique species of equine, the donkey has certain specific variations from the horse.
This review highlights the origins of the donkey and how this impacts on its behavior …

A brand new edition of the definitive textbook on humankind's impact on the Earth's
environment—now in full color This classic text explores the multitude of impacts that …

Artificial selection is the selection of advantageous natural variation for human ends and is
the mechanism by which most domestic species evolved. Most domesticates have their …

Over the past 11,000 years humans have brought a wide variety of animals under
domestication. Domestic animals belong to all Linnaean animal classes—mammals, birds …

Current knowledge about the evolutionary history of donkeys is still incomplete due to the
lack of archeological and whole-genome diversity data. To fill this gap, we have de novo …

Domestic chickens have long been important to human societies for food, religion,
entertainment, and decorative uses, yet the origins and phylogeography of chickens through …

A Financial Times and Economist Best Book of the Year exploring world trade from
Mesopotamia in 3,000 BC to modern globalization. How did trade evolve to the point where …

Encompassing a landmass greater than the rest of the Near East and Eastern
Mediterranean combined, the Arabian peninsula remains one of the last great unexplored …

Domestication is an ongoing co-evolutionary process rather than an event or invention.
Recent zooarchaeological and animal genetics research has prompted a thorough revision …