From wild animals to domestic pets, an evolutionary view of domestication

Driscoll, Carlos A.; Macdonald, David W.; O'Brien, Stephen J.

doi:10.1073/pnas.0901586106

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From wild animals to domestic pets, an evolutionary view of domestication

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Driscoll, Carlos A., Macdonald, David W., O'Brien, Stephen J.·2009·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Artificial selection is the selection of advantageous natural variation for human ends and is the mechanism by which most domestic species evolved. Most domesticates have their origin in one of a few historic centers of domestication as farm animals. Two notable exceptions are cats and dogs. Wolf domestication was initiated late in the Mesolithic when humans were nomadic hunter-gatherers. Those wolves less afraid of humans scavenged nomadic hunting camps and over time developed utility, initially as guards warning of approaching animals or other nomadic bands and soon thereafter as hunters, an attribute tuned by artificial selection. The first domestic cats had limited utility and initiated their domestication among the earliest agricultural Neolithic settlements in the Near East. Wildcat domestication occurred through a self-selective process in which behavioral reproductive isolation evolved as a correlated character of assortative mating coupled to habitat choice for urban environments. Eurasian wildcats initiated domestication and their evolution to companion animals was initially a process of natural, rather than artificial, selection over time driven during their sympatry with forbear wildcats.

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Authors: Driscoll, C. A., Macdonald, D. W., & O'Brien, S. J.
Affiliations: University of Oxford (GB)
Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702
ORCID: Driscoll, Carlos A.
Macdonald, David W.
Venue: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
Published: 2009-06-16
Volume: 106
Issue: supplement_1
Pages: 9971-9978
ISSN: 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0901586106
PMC: PMC2702791
OpenAlex: W2076249643
Cited by: 639
References: 79
Citations by year: 2026: 26 · 2025: 36 · 2024: 48 · 2023: 51 · 2022: 105 · 2021: 43 · 2020: 48 · 2019: 49 · 2018: 38 · 2017: 40 · 2016: 21 · 2015: 33 · 2014: 33 · 2013: 19 · 2012: 18
FWCI: 9.11
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Locations: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
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NSUWorks (Nova Southeastern University) (submittedVersion)
Topics: Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Human-Animal Interaction Studies
Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
Keywords: animal domestication, selective breeding, wolf domestication, dog domestication, cats, Mesolithic, Neolithic, companion animals, reproductive isolation, assortative mating, habitat selection, sympatry, domestication syndrome
MeSH terms: Animals, Animals, Domestic, Cats, Dogs, Biological Evolution, Humans, Sexual Behavior, Animal

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