The human face may have evolved through a process of "self-domestication" with our ancient ancestors tending to choose mates who had less aggressive, friendlier personality types. Scientists have ...

Whether it’s your grandpa’s nose, your mother’s eyes, or the chin the entire family share, humans depend on facial features to tell one another apart, to read emotions and intent, and to communicate ...

Tomato domestication history is generally depicted as a "two-step" process with an increase in fruit size from blueberry-sized SP to generally cherry-sized SLC, and then to the very large-fruited ...

New findings, made by researchers studying the outcome of a decades-long fox-breeding experiment, suggest that some aspects of social intelligence in animals are correlated with genetically selected ...

A surprising discovery has rewritten how cats become house pets, while unexpected and rapid evolution is making red foxes more like dogs. In short: an animal’s path to domestication is very ...

"The presentations of the second edition of the Harlan Symposium, held September 14-18, 2008, on the campus of the University of California, Davis ..."--Foreword. The local origins of domestication / ...

Wild elephants play, help sick members of their species and babysit each other's young, suggesting they domesticated themselves. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Research collaboration: International Mixed Laboratory - Evolution and Domestication of the Amazonian Ichtyofauna (LMI-EDIA) is a research collaboration whose article contributions are accrued to its ...