Human Domestication Reconsidered
- Kind
- Journal Article
- Date
- June 2003
- Publisher
- Current Anthropology
- Volume / pages
- Volume 44, Number 3
- Retrieved
- Nov 12, 2015
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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…
Humans as Self-Domesticating Animals
at the end of the Pleistocene, certain human groups and their animal associates began progressively to show parallel reductions in size and stature, cranial gracilization, changes in post-cranial robusticity, shortening of the face and jaws, tooth crowding and malocclusion, and tooth-size reduction and simplification…