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dog domestication

  1. EnolaGaia

    Domestication Syndrome: How Animals We Keep Adapt To Being Kept

    The animals we humans have domesticated have evolved and adapted in response to their new niches in a human-devised milieu. The cluster of traits and adaptations peculiar to domestic animals is suggested to constitute a "domestication syndrome." Newly published research has confirmed and...
  2. T

    Humans & Dogs: Cooperation / Co-Evolution / Domestication

    As a dog owner and someone who lists evolutionary theory as a hobby (I should listen to my wife and get out more) I have been giving some thought to the relationship between humans and dogs. I am not aware of a major group of humans who don’t have domesticated dogs. So what would prompt this...
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