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Episode 205
Published 3 years, 9 months ago
Description
Anna saddles up to lead Amber on a faunal adventure! We’ll discuss the changes that happen when humans start influencing animal breeding. We’ll also cover the origin stories of a few of the most prevalent domesticated species. But don't worry, we cover some examples of "non-typical" domestication too, plus a case of animal coworkers. We’ll even tackle the question… have we humans domesticated OURSELVES??
Links
- Domesticated animals, explained (National Geographic)
- Whence the Domestic Horse? (Science)
- Dog domestication and the dual dispersal of people and dogs into the Americas (PNAS)
- DNA traces cattle back to a small herd domesticated around 10,500 years ago (UCL)
- How Sheep Became Livestock (Science)
- Understanding the origins of European domestic pigs (Natural History Museum)
- The Domestication of Pigs: Sus Scrofa's Two Distinct Histories (ThoughtCo)
- Ancient Egyptians may have given cats the personality to conquer the world (Science)
- Ancient DNA reveals the lost domestication history of South American camelids in Northern Chile and across the Andes (eLife)
- Early Holocene chicken domestication in northern China (PNAS)
- The earliest farmers of northwest China exploited grain-fed pheasants not chickens (Nature Scientific Reports)
- Buried with Snails (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute)
- Insects: The Disregarded Domestication Histories (Animal Domestication)
- On Horseback Among the Eagle Hunters and Herders of the Mongolian Altai (New York Times)
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