A powerful and innovative argument that explores the complexity of the human relationship
with material things, demonstrating how humans and societies are entrapped into the …

Domesticated food crops are derived from a phylogenetically diverse assemblage of wild
ancestors through artificial selection for different traits. Our understanding of domestication …

An Economist Best History Book 2017 “History as it should be written.”—Barry Cunliffe,
Guardian “Scott hits the nail squarely on the head by exposing the staggering price our …

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

The domestication of plants and animals is a key transition in human history, and its
profound and continuing impacts are the focus of a broad range of transdisciplinary research …

Abstract Background Tartary buckwheat, Fagopyrum tataricum, is a pseudocereal crop with
worldwide distribution and high nutritional value. However, the origin and domestication …

Ten thousand years ago human societies around the globe began to transition from hunting
and gathering to agriculture. By 4000 years ago, ancient peoples had completed the …

Over the past 11,000 years humans have brought a wide variety of animals under
domestication. Domestic animals belong to all Linnaean animal classes—mammals, birds …

Plant domestication is an outstanding example of plant–animal co-evolution and is a far
richer model for studying evolution than is generally appreciated. There have been …

Artificial selection is the selection of advantageous natural variation for human ends and is
the mechanism by which most domestic species evolved. Most domesticates have their …