News articles tagged with 'domestication'
Multiple approaches necessary to tackle world's food problems
— 19 Feb 2011 10:18 | EnvironmentResearchers need to use all available resources in an integrated approach to put agriculture on a path to solve the world's food problems while reducing pollution, according to a Penn…
Cactus genes connect modern Mexico to its prehistoric past
— 23 Aug 2010 18:18 | BiologyIn prehistoric times farmers across the world domesticated wild plants to create an agricultural revolution. As a result the ancestral plants have been lost, causing problems for anyone…
Ancient DNA identifies donkey ancestors, people who domesticated them
— 29 Jul 2010 11:43 | BiologyGenetic investigators say the partnership between people and the ancestors of today's donkeys was sealed not by monarchs trying to establish kingdoms, but by mobile, pastoral people…
New hypothesis for human evolution and human nature
— 21 Jul 2010 08:39 | BiologyIt's no secret to any dog-lover or cat-lover that humans have a special connection with animals. But in a new journal article and forthcoming book, palaeoanthropologist Pat Shipman…
What plant genes tell us about crop domestication
— 8 Jul 2010 08:36 | BiologyAnyone who has seen teosinte, the wild grass from which maize (corn) evolved, might be forgiven for assuming many genetic changes underlie the transformation of one plant to the other…
Chinese pigs 'direct descendants' of first domesticated breeds
— 20 Apr 2010 10:59 | BiologyModern-day Chinese pigs are directly descended from ancient pigs which were the first to be domesticated in the region 10,000 years ago, a new archaeological and genetic study has revealed…
Small dogs originated in the Middle East
— 24 Feb 2010 13:32 | BiologyA genetic study has found that small domestic dogs probably originated in the Middle East more than 12,000 years ago. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Biology traced…
Wild Iberian horses contributed to the origin of the current Iberian domestic stock
— 11 Jan 2010 16:47 | BiologyThe earliest known domestic horses are around 4,600 years old. They were originated in the steppes between modern Ukraine and Kazakhstan. Using this evidence, two different hypotheses…
Mystery about domestication of horse has been unravelled
— 24 Apr 2009 19:29 | BiologyWild horses were domesticated in the Ponto-Caspian steppe region (today Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Romania) in the 3rd millennium B.C. Despite the pivotal role horses have played…
Researchers find the earliest evidence of domesticated maize
— 24 Mar 2009 16:26 | BiologyMaize was domesticated from its wild ancestor more than 8700 years according to biological evidence uncovered by researchers in the Mexico's Central Balsas River Valley. This is the…