Wang, Peng Liu, Xupeng Yao, Ziyue Chen, Yu Luo, Lanfang Liang, Kun Tan, Jun-Hao Elwin Chua, Min-Wen Jason Chua, Yan-Jiang Benjamin Ma, Shilin Zhang, Liping Ma, Wenwu ...

Domestication and selective breeding go further than our pets, though. Both livestock and transportation animals have been ...

The production of transgenic livestock has the opportunity to significantly improve human health, enhance nutrition, protect the environment, increase animal welfare, and decrease livestock disease.

Across human history, no single animal has had a deeper impact on human societies than the horse. But when and how people domesticated horses has been an ongoing scientific mystery. Half a million ...

Is the brain of domesticated dogs really smaller than that of their wild cousins? For a long time, scientists have argued that domestication reduces brain size in domesticated animals. A recent study ...

How did the ability to domesticate animals help a civilizations ability to become rich and powerful? Diamond points out that livestock plays a key role in determining whether a civilization can become ...

It’s no secret that we love our animal friends. Research led by the Pet Food Manufacturers' Association shows that 62% of UK households owned some kind of pet in 2022. Animals have played an ...

People have pondered animal behavior since the beginnings of human existence (Frison 1998). Insights into animal behavior allowed our ancestors to outsmart prey during a hunt or befriend another ...

He had a hunch that he could use them to unlock domestication's molecular mysteries. Domesticated animals are known to share a common set of characteristics, a fact documented by Darwin in The ...

But what's the actual evidence supporting the Kurgan hypothesis for the first horse domestication? Many of the most important clues come from the bones and teeth of ancient animals, via a ...

The earliest archaeological evidence for viticulture and wine drinking was unearthed around 8,000 years ago in the Caucasus, but the origin of grapevine domestication has remained mysterious ...

October 4, 2024 • Tuesday night, JD Vance and Tim Walz faced off in their first debate. Host Brittany Luse is joined by NPR's national race and identity correspondent Sandhya Dirks and political ...