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Domesticated yaks carrying supplies in colorful bundles walk along a rocky mountain trail toward Everest Base Camp, with snow-covered peaks in the background in Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal. Prehistoric rock painting showing human figures and cattle in dark red pigment on textured stone at Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria. Three hemp drawstring bags and a roll of hemp rope rest on coarse brown sackcloth fabric. Rows of green Nicotiana tabacum tobacco plants growing in soil, showing broad, bright leaves and healthy foliage. Light brown goat with long, floppy ears and a white stripe on its face stands on grass, facing slightly to the left. A shepherd on horseback holding a long staff watches over a large flock of sheep grazing on open grassland near Kharkhorin, central Mongolia. chickens Egyptian bronze sculpture Honeycomb Close-up of teosinte (Zea mexicana) plant with green leaves and reddish-purple stems, showing the ancestral form of maize.
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Article title updated for style. Nov 01, 2026
Add new Web site: PNAS - From wild animals to domestic pets, an evolutionary view of domestication. Oct 26, 2026
Add new Web site: The Royal Society Publishing - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences - Unravelling domestication: introduction to the theme issue. Sep 18, 2025
Add new Web site: Cell Press - Trends in Ecology and Evolution - What is domestication? Aug 04, 2025
Add new Web site: CiteSeerX - Domestication and the origins of agriculture: an appraisal (PDF). Mar 08, 2025
Add new Web site: BMC - Frontiers in Zoology - Domestication affects the structure, development and stability of biobehavioural profiles. Oct 04, 2024
Add new Web site: BMC - Frontiers in Zoology - Domestication affects the structure, development and stability of biobehavioural profiles. Oct 04, 2024
Add new Web site: PNAS - From wild animals to domestic pets, an evolutionary view of domestication. May 10, 2024
Add new Web site: Nature - Scientific Reports - Domestication leads to increased predation susceptibility. Mar 08, 2024
Add new Web site: The Royal Society Publishing - Domestication as a model system for the extended evolutionary synthesis. Dec 29, 2023
Add new Web site: Frontiers - The Domestication Makeup: Evolution, Survival, and Challenges. Oct 16, 2023
Add new Web site: University of Nebraska Pressbooks - Domestication. Aug 08, 2023
Add new Web site: Cell - What is domestication? Jun 30, 2023
Add new Web site: Social Sci LibreTexts - Emergence of Domestication. Apr 04, 2023
Add new Web site: HistoryWorld - History of the Domestication of Animals. Dec 04, 2022
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - The Genetics Of Domestication. Aug 29, 2022
Revised geologic time boundaries. Oct 23, 2020
Media added. Oct 23, 2020
Add new Web site: National Geographic Society - Education - Domestication. Mar 31, 2017
Add new Web site: The Oriental Institute of The University of Chicago - Teaching the Middle East: A Resource for Educators - Domestication of Plants and Animals in Global Perspective. Mar 31, 2017
Timing of the domestication of dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) and other domestic animals, added. Jan 18, 2016
Add new Web site: The Ohio State University - Domestication. Dec 05, 2011
Add new Web site: How Stuff Works - Science - How Animal Domestication Works. Dec 05, 2011
Article restructured. Aug 15, 2009
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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