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They look like stripey horses – so why don’t we ride them?
We’ve bred them into all shapes and sizes, but dogs haven’t been around for long enough to have evolved beyond Canis familiaris.
An animal science expert explains why Crufts teaches us so much about man’s best friend.
The how and the when of dog domestication are fairly settled. As for the where: now DNA says Fido traces his roots back to wolves in Central Asia that lingered around people’s camps millennia ago.
With humans providing lots of easy leftover food, wolves had a great incentive to ‘self-domesticate’.
Turns out pigs have more boar in them than we thought.
House cats are a great source of companionship for many people – 3 million cats are kept as pets in Australia. Now thanks to research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science today…
Take a look at several domesticated mammal species and you might spot a number of similarities between them, including those cute floppy ears. The famous naturalist and evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin…
There has been much debate about how cats went from hunting in the wild to a much-loved pet. That is because we know little about their domestication. Now researchers have found the earliest case of cat…
The Silk Road snaked across continents for more than a thousand years, shaping civilisations in East and West. Famously trodden by Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan, the trade route brought riches to…
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Fellow, Keele University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Evolutionary Ecology, Griffith University
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Embryologist, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Professor and Sixth Century Chair of Human Palaeoecology, University of Aberdeen
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Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Leicester
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Associate professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Cornelia H. Dudley Professor of Psychology, Knox College
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Senior Lecturer in Animal Science, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Leicester
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Biological Sciences, Cornell University
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Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology, Cardiff University
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Professor of Cultural Palaeoecology, Liverpool John Moores University
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Professor of Archaeology, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
