12 NOV 2015 by ideonexus
Attributes of Domesticated Animals
The study of domesticated animals since Darwin’s influential
work (1868) has culminated in the formation
of a set of changes that are claimed to distinguish domestic
populations from wild species (for recent outlines
of these see Price 1984, 1999; Hemmer 1990; Tchernov
and Horwitz 1991; Hall 1993; Teichert 1993; Smith 1995;
Zohary, Tchernov, and Horwitz 1998; Clutton-Brock
1999; Trut 1999). Although not uniformly present in all
domesticated species, those affecting the skeleton may
include ...Folksonomies: evolution domestication
Folksonomies: evolution domestication
20 MAY 2011 by ideonexus
Skeletal Similarities in Mammals
What a piece of work is the mammalian skeleton. I don't mean it is beautiful in itself,
although I think it is. I mean the fact that we can talk about 'the' mammalian skeleton at all: the fact
that such a complicatedly interlocking thing is so gloriously different across the mammals, in all its
parts, while simultaneously being so obviously the same thing throughout the mammals. Our own
skeleton is familiar enough to need no picture, but look at this skeleton of a bat. Isn't it fascinating
ho...There are corresponding bones across species, evolved into other functions.