Analyses of fossils and ancient genomics reveal how early human populations bred less wolf-like companions, and might have ...

The Illumination Discovery Hub at the University of Wisconsin held their monthly academic lecture, Crossroads of Ideas, Nov.

It is true that humans domesticated pigeons for centuries, and feral pigeons do largely stay in urban environments because we brought them there. They are highly trainable, and if fed by humans, they ...

A new study of ancient dog DNA shows that people and dogs traveled together across Eurasia for at least 10,000 years.

This post is in response to Autism and "Domestication Syndrome" in Humans By Christopher Badcock Ph.D. In the post to which this is a sequel, I reported remarkable research which suggests that, to the ...

Humans engage in mutualisms (mutually beneficial relationships) with many species; scientists describe a subset of these relationships as domestication, where one species exerts control over the other ...