The domestication of plants and animals over the past 11,500 years has had a significant
effect not just on the domesticated taxa but also on human evolution and on the biosphere …

Old World camels have served humans in cross‐continental caravans, transporting people
and goods, connecting different cultures and providing milk, meat, wool and draught since …

The Pleistocene presence of the genus Homo in continental Southeast Asia is primarily
evidenced by a sparse stone tool record and rare human remains. Here we report a Middle …

Taxonomy of Australian Mammals utilises the latest morphometric and genetic research to
develop the most up to date and comprehensive revision of the taxonomy of Australian …

Se presenta una lista comentada de los mamíferos terrestres, acuáticos y marinos nativos
de Perú, incluyendo sus nombres comunes, la distribución por ecorregiones y los estados …

More than one million smallholders in the Andean region of central South America exploit
alpacas (Vicugna pacos) and lamas (Lama glama) as their main means of subsistence …

This book traces the evolution of the dog, from its origins about 15,000 years ago up to
recent times. The timing of dog domestication receives attention, with comparisons between …

Animal domestication is considered a complex and multistage process that altered
behaviorally, morphologically, and physiologically the domesticates relative to their wild …

New methods permit archaeologists to distinguish between wild boar and domestic pigs with
greater confidence than has been hitherto possible. Metrical methods are the most …

The identification of regions that have undergone selection is one of the principal goals of
theoretical and applied evolutionary genetics. Such studies can also provide information …