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Unravelling domestication: introduction to the theme issue
Gillis, Rosalind; Corso, Marta Dal; Oliveira, Hugo; Spengler, Robert N.The domestication of plants and animals is considered one of the key milestones of cultural evolution, on a par with the use of lithic technology and mastery of fire. Domesticated species are—and have been—fundamental to the growth and economic success of human societies. Millennia of herding and agricultural intensification have caused irreversible changes to natural environments, while the ability to accrue a...
Seeking consensus on the domestication concept
Spengler, Robert N.; Tang, Li; Corso, Marta Dal; Gillis, Rosalind Emma; Oliveira, Hugo; Makhamad, Basira MirThe domestication of plants and animals permitted the development of cities and social hierarchies, as well as fostering cultural changes that ultimately led humanity into the modern world. Despite the importance of this set of related evolutionary phenomena, scholars have not reached a consensus on what the earliest steps in the domestication process looked like, how long the seminal portions of the process to...