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Core questions in domestication research
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Significance: Domestication of plants and animals marks a major transition in human history that represents a vibrant area of interdisciplinary scientific inquiry. Consideration of three central questions about domestication—what it is, what it does, and why it happened—provide a unifying framework for diverse research on the topic. Domestication is defined in terms of a coevolutionary mutualism between domesticator and domesticate and is distinguished from related but ultimately different processes of management and agriculture. Domestication results in a range of genotypic, phenotypic, plastic, and contextual impacts that can be used as markers of evolving domesticatory relationships. A consideration of causal scenarios finds greater empirical support for explanatory frameworks grounded in niche-construction theory over those derived from optimal foraging theory.
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- Authors
- Zeder, M. A.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2015-02-20
- Volume
- 112
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 3191-3198
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- OpenAlex
- W2008505800
- Cited by
- 553
- References
- 87
- FWCI
- 36.94
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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