Comments on: Book review – The Process of Animal Domestication

By: Book review – A Dog’s World: Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World without Humans | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 31 May 2023 13:35:55 +0000

[…] made the same argument—that feralization is not just domestication in reverse—in his excellent The Process of Animal Domestication. One important reason for this is that dogs would inhabit a changed world compared to their wolf […]

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By: Book review – The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries: The Evidence and the People Who Found It | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 19 May 2022 11:51:34 +0000

[…] the topics he left out as a consequence of this secondary mission. Two notable omissions are the process of domestication, even though Darwin used numerous examples of it in On the Origin of Species and then wrote a […]

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By: Book review – Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 19 May 2022 11:49:31 +0000

[…] carefully balanced product of millennia of coevolution” (p. 224). After having introduced domestication, she asks whether the cattle abandoned decades ago on the Scottish island of Swona are an example […]

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By: Book review – Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined – and Redefined – Nature | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 19 May 2022 11:47:41 +0000

[…] how much can be attributed to past climate change and how much to our hunting ancestors. She covers the process of animal domestication and how it affected both the genetics of animals and ourselves. And, finally, she looks at very […]

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