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 …

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 Government of Japan's “Society 5.0” initiative aims to create a cyber-physical society in
which (among other things) citizens' daily lives will be enhanced through increasingly close …

The evolutionary basis of domestication has been a longstanding question and its genetic
architecture is becoming more tractable as more domestic species become genome …

Through their domestication and subsequent selection, sheep have been adapted to thrive
in a diverse range of environments. To characterise the genetic consequence of both …

The past decade has witnessed a quantum leap in our understanding of the origins,
diffusion, and impact of early agriculture in the Mediterranean Basin. In large measure these …

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 …

The emergence of farming during the Neolithic transition, including the domestication of
livestock, was a critical point in the evolution of human kind. The goat (Capra hircus) was …

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 …

For about 10 000 years, farmers have been managing cattle, sheep, and goats in a
sustainable way, leading to animals that are well adapted to the local conditions. About 200 …