Why did the chicken cross the globe? A new study has revealed how chickens were domesticated.
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Octopus build cities, establish hierarchies and show social group behaviours. Domesticating will mean creating a new kind of octopus, with ecological and ethical implications.
While humans domesticate plants and animals, these relationships are surprisingly rare in other species. Our new study found a species of fish that appears to have domesticated a kind of tiny shrimp.
Archaeologists have long argued over when and how people first domesticated horses. A decade ago, new techniques appeared to have provided answers – but further discoveries change the story again.
Through genetic detective work, scientists have identified missing links in the tomato’s evolution from a wild blueberry-sized fruit in South America to the larger modern tomato of today.
Your taste for cheese and yoghurt may never have been satisfied were it not for illicit microbial sex.
Human changes to the living world have benefited us, but the ecological consequences are mounting.
Our research shows that, millions of years from now, fossilised chicken bones will mark the era of human domination.
A new study of ancient Botai horses turns our knowledge about wild and domestic horses on its head.
Scientists have shown the origins of today’s popular ‘tabby’ cat.
New study finds little evidence that farmers consciously tried to turn wild plants into more useful crops.
Many are embarrassed to publicly show too much grief over the death of a dog. But research has shown just how devastating the loss can be.
New research shows how ancient rainforest cultures have left their mark on today’s plantlife.
They look like stripey horses – so why don’t we ride them?
We’ve bred them into all shapes and sizes, but dogs haven’t been around for long enough to have evolved beyond Canis familiaris.
An animal science expert explains why Crufts teaches us so much about man’s best friend.
The how and the when of dog domestication are fairly settled. As for the where: now DNA says Fido traces his roots back to wolves in Central Asia that lingered around people’s camps millennia ago.
With humans providing lots of easy leftover food, wolves had a great incentive to ‘self-domesticate’.
Turns out pigs have more boar in them than we thought.
House cats are a great source of companionship for many people – 3 million cats are kept as pets in Australia. Now thanks to research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science today…
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Research Associate in Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution
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Fellow, Keele University
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Assistant Professor and Curator of Archaeology, University of Colorado Boulder
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Curator of Archaeobotany and Archaeogenomics, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
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Professor and Sixth Century Chair of Human Palaeoecology, University of Aberdeen
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Embryologist, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Research Fellow, Animal Welfare Science Centre, The University of Melbourne
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Research fellow, Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University; Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC)
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, CQUniversity Australia
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Professor of Archaeology, Washington University in St. Louis
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Associate professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Cornelia H. Dudley Professor of Psychology, Knox College
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Senior Lecturer in Animal Science, Nottingham Trent University
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Research fellow, University of Sydney
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Professor of Cultural Palaeoecology, Liverpool John Moores University