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A genetic perspective on the domestication continuum

L. Frantz,G. Larson

Published 2018 in Hybrid Communities

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Introduction Beginning with dogs over 15,000 years ago, the domestication of plant and animals has played a key role in the development of modern societies. The importance of domestication for archeology, biology, and humanities, means that it has been studied extensively. Over the past decades, new conceptual models of animal domestication have emerged from the archeological literature that are trying to break away from anthropocentric view of domestication. These models describe domestication as a gradual process, but also question the ubiquity of human intent during the early stages of the process (Ervynck et al. 2001, Vigne 2011, Zeder 2011). Under this view, domestication is thought as continuous the process by which a species alter, voluntarily or involuntarily, the phenotype of an other and assumes a significant degree of influence over its care and reproduction (Zeder 2015). These models stand in stark contrast with the traditional views that involve intent and strong directed breeding from humans (Bökönyi 1989, Clutton-Brock 1992, Larson and Fuller 2014).

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