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Domesticated : evolution in a man-made world
Title:
Domesticated : evolution in a man-made world
Format:
Books
Publication Date(s):
2015
ISBN:
9780393064605
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
ix, 484 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Contents:
House fox -- Dogs -- Cats -- Other predators -- Evolutionary interlude -- Pigs -- Cattle -- Sheep and goats -- Reindeer -- Camels -- Horses -- Rodents -- Humans. Part I, Evolution -- Humans. Part II, Sociality -- The Anthropocene.
Summary:
Draws on history, archaeology, anthropology, and twenty-first-century ideas in biology to explain domestication as an evolutionary process.
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