Studies on domestication are blooming, but the developmental bases for the generation of
domestication traits and breed diversity remain largely unexplored. Some phenotypic …

Charles Darwin, while trying to devise a general theory of heredity from the observations of
animal and plant breeders, discovered that domesticated mammals possess a distinctive …

Altered neural crest cell (NCC) behaviour is an increasingly cited explanation for the
domestication syndrome in animals. However, recent authors have questioned this …

The timing of wolf domestication remains a subject of intense debate, especially as recent
genetic, morphological and radiometric analyses of relevant skeletal material apparently …

In vertebrates, thyroid hormones (THs, thyroxine, and triiodothyronine) are critical cell
signaling molecules. THs regulate and coordinate physiology within and between cells …

Issues related to the identification of Late Pleistocene dogs from different sites in Eurasia,
triggered by recent publications (see Germonpré et al., 2009, 2012; Ovodov et al., 2011), are …

Background Due to selective breeding, domesticated and wild Atlantic salmon are
genetically diverged, which raises concerns about farmed escapees having the potential to …

Reduced brain size, compared with wild individuals, is argued to be a key characteristic of
domesticated mammal species, and often cited as a key component of a putative …

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2018 Susan J. Crockford The Global Warming Policy Foundation GWPF Report 32 Page 2 Page …

Heterochronies, temporal changes in ancestral ontogeny, are proposed to play the major
role in microand macroevolutionary transformations of lower vertebrates. However, the …