A new paper in PNAS finds evidence of another breed of, now lost, domesticated turkeys. Some description, speculation, and links to the paper itself and further coverage in wired.
Posts Tagged ‘domestication’
The Domestication of Maize
Twenty thousand years ago, not a single crop species existed in its current form. Almost* every bite of food you eat today is the result huge amounts of human artificial selection, both unconsciously and intentionally by farmers and plant breeders. Sometimes the obvious changes are minor, for example between wild and domesticated strawberries: Clearly one [...]