They may have been drawn to the discarded remains from ancient human meals, and a new model shows tame wolves could have ...

The domestication of wheat and barley in the Fertile Crescent marked a pivotal turning point in human history. This region, encompassing parts of mod ...

Dogs may look adorable when they snooze, but their sleeping habits actually hold fascinating clues on how living with humans ...

The domestication of maize is one of the greatest examples of humankind's impact on evolution. Early farmers' pre-industrial plant breeding choices turned corn from a nearly inedible crop into the ...

MaizeCODE is a genomic project analyzing the genetic basis of maize domestication. Researchers identified key regulatory ...

I mean bred for domestication, as tame as your tabby cat or your Labrador. In fact, says Anna Kukekova, a Cornell researcher who studies the foxes, "they remind me a lot of golden retrievers ...

More information: Vincent Somerville et al, Genomic and phenotypic imprints of microbial domestication on cheese starter cultures, Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-52687-7 ...

A new study has unveiled the genetic mechanism controlling citric acid content in jujube fruit, identifying a natural ...

Canines were first domesticated at least 15,000 years ago somewhere in Eurasia, and several evolutionary pressures could theoretically lead to a build-up of disadvantageous mutations as domestication ...

What the findings do suggest, however, is that “the proto-domestication hypothesis cannot be rejected on the basis of time ...

Media practitioners in Aba, the commercial hub of Abia State, have appealed to various State Governments in Nigeria, yet to ...

In this paper, we review the archaeological, genetic, and linguistic evidence relevant to this question, and suggest that the domestication took place following hybridization with taurine cattle from ...