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Domesticated : evolution in a man-made world /Richard C Francis

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher number: Variety Books Publishers Distributors | ;B-10,Street No-02,West Vinod Nagar ,Delhi-110092Publication details: New York : W.W. Norton & Company , 2015Description: ix, 484 pages ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780393353037
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 636 FRA
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 -- Epilogue -- Appendices : From the modern synthesis to an extended synthesis? -- Genomics and the tree of life -- From landraces to breeds -- What's in a gait -- Horse evolution -- Genealogy of horse breeds -- The epigenetic dimension -- Evolutionary biology, evolutionary anthropology, and evolutionary psychology -- The control of fire and its consequences. 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 -- Epilogue -- Appendices: Appendix A to chapter 5: From the modern synthesis to an extended synthesis? ; Appendix B to chapter 5: Genomics and the tree of life ; Appendix to chapter 7: From landraces to breeds ; Appendix to chapter 10: What's in a gait ; Appendix A to chapter 11: Horse evolution ; Appendix B to chapter 11: Genealogy of horse breeds ; Appendix to chapter 12: The epigenetic dimension ; Appendix to chapter 14: Evolutionary biology, evolutionary anthropology, and evolutionary psychology ; Appendix to chapter 15: The control of fire and its consequences
Summary: Draws on history, archaeology, anthropology, and twenty-first-century ideas in biology to explain domestication as an evolutionary process
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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 --
Epilogue --
Appendices : From the modern synthesis to an extended synthesis? --
Genomics and the tree of life --
From landraces to breeds --
What's in a gait --
Horse evolution --
Genealogy of horse breeds --
The epigenetic dimension --
Evolutionary biology, evolutionary anthropology, and evolutionary psychology --
The control of fire and its consequences. 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 --
Epilogue --
Appendices: Appendix A to chapter 5: From the modern synthesis to an extended synthesis? ; Appendix B to chapter 5: Genomics and the tree of life ; Appendix to chapter 7: From landraces to breeds ; Appendix to chapter 10: What's in a gait ; Appendix A to chapter 11: Horse evolution ; Appendix B to chapter 11: Genealogy of horse breeds ; Appendix to chapter 12: The epigenetic dimension ; Appendix to chapter 14: Evolutionary biology, evolutionary anthropology, and evolutionary psychology ; Appendix to chapter 15: The control of fire and its consequences


Draws on history, archaeology, anthropology, and twenty-first-century ideas in biology to explain domestication as an evolutionary process

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