Formerly domesticated organisms and artificially selected genes often escape controlled
cultivation, but their subsequent evolution is not well studied. In this review, we examine …

How does domestication affect the brain? This question has broad relevance. Domesticated
animals play important roles in human society, and substantial recent work has addressed …

The self-domestication hypothesis suggests that, like mammalian domesticates, humans
have gone through a process of selection against aggression–a process that in the case of …

The taxonomic status and systematic nomenclature of the Australian dingo remain
contentious, resulting in decades of inconsistent applications in the scientific literature and in …

Domestic animals are ubiquitous. In contrast to the biodiversity crisis currently impacting
many kinds of animals and plants, not a single domesticated species is endangered …

Domestication has long been considered the most powerful evolutionary engine behind
dramatic reductions in brain size in several taxa, and the dog (Canis familiaris) is considered …

Feralization is the process by which domestic animals return to the wild and produce self-
sustaining populations. It is often considered as a model in understanding the permanence …

Across Mammalia, body size and lifespan are positively correlated. However, in domestic
dogs, the opposite is true: small dogs have longer lives compared with large dogs. Here, I …

A typical consequence of breeding animal species for domestication is a reduction in
relative brain size. When domesticated animals escape from captivity and establish feral …

Domestication has long been the subject of scientific inquiry; since Darwin's “The variation of
animals and plants under domestication”(1868), differences between domesticated and wild …