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Summary Of: Domestication

The most common form of domestication is artificial selection by humans... assuming domestication does not necessarily imply physical modification... It is possible that the historical process of domestication cannot be fully explained by any one principle acting alone... breeding may have played a role in the domestication of the various species that humans have come into close contact with throughout history... The earliest human attempts at plant domestication occurred in Asia... As domestication took place humans began to move from a... One side effect of domestication has been disease... Since the process of domestication inherently takes many generations over a long period of time... The methods available to estimate domestication dates introduce further uncertainty... especially when domestication has occurred in the distant past... Dates and places of domestication are mainly estimated by... make it possible to reestimate the dates of domestication based on research into the genealogical tree of modern domestic animals... It is admitted for several species that domestication occurred in several places distinctly... this preceded the domestication of other species by several millennia... Recent archaeological evidence from Cyprus indicates domestication of a type of... date of domestication and use as a means of transport is at the... Domestication of the horse... Domestication of the horse... independent domestication and subsequent introgression... domestication of the cat on Cyprus... The Domestication of the Horse... Domestication of the horse... Domestication of the horse... The Initial Domestication of Cucurbita pepo in the Americas 10... Phytolith evidence for early Holocene Cucurbita domestication in southwest Ecuador...

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