A unified approach to the study of domestic animals is an important step in achieving a proper understanding of the nature of domestication. In this book, the author has successfully brought together data from many different fields. It emphasizes the importance of domestic animals to the development of human civilization and demonstrates how human control of domestication may result in the planned production of distinct kinds of domestic animals, bred specifically to improve food production, build up alternative methods of land use or provide new laboratory animals for use in scientific research. The text concentrates on the importance of changes in animal behavior to the process of domestication and describes how one of the characteristics of domesticated animals is a lack of the same kind of perception of their surrounding environment as is shown by wild animals. New results and ideas are presented and the book demonstrates how the practical application of a theoretical strategy for domestication resulted in the production of the first primitive, but truly domestic, fallow deer.
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Domestic animals may be provisionally defined as those kept and bred in and around human habitation to be used constantly to human advantage. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
intensive taming, banded pig, southern wolves, secondary domestication, primary domestication, southern wolf, environmental appreciation, dilution allele, northern wolves, primitive dogs, wild colour, warty pigs, heath sheep, black locus, colour alleles, geographically separate populations, northern wolf, stimulus load, agouti allele, primitive breeds, domestic yak, bezoar goat, agouti locus, improved breeds, regressive evolution Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Ice Age, Arabian Peninsula, Central Europe, North American, Central Asian, North Africa, Southeast Asia, South American, East Asian, East Europe, Federal Republic of Germany, Porto Santo, Old World, Soviet Union, Colin Groves, Falkland Island, Gobi Desert, Inner Asia, Konrad Lorenz, Saint Bernard New!
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Domestic animals may be provisionally defined as those kept and bred in and around human habitation to be used constantly to human advantage. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
intensive taming, banded pig, southern wolves, secondary domestication, primary domestication, southern wolf, environmental appreciation, dilution allele, northern wolves, primitive dogs, wild colour, warty pigs, heath sheep, black locus, colour alleles, geographically separate populations, northern wolf, stimulus load, agouti allele, primitive breeds, domestic yak, bezoar goat, agouti locus, improved breeds, regressive evolution Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Ice Age, Arabian Peninsula, Central Europe, North American, Central Asian, North Africa, Southeast Asia, South American, East Asian, East Europe, Federal Republic of Germany, Porto Santo, Old World, Soviet Union, Colin Groves, Falkland Island, Gobi Desert, Inner Asia, Konrad Lorenz, Saint Bernard New!
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- Physiological Psychology by Mark R. Rosenzweig in Back Matter
- The Museum: Behind the Scenes at the British Museum by Rupert Smith in Front Matter
- Comparative Genetics of Coat Colour in Mammals by Antony G. Searle in Back Matter
- The Chance to Survive by Lawrence Alderson in Back Matter
- Evolution of Domesticated Animals by I. L. Mason in Back Matter
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- Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America by Virginia DeJohn Anderson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Domestic Dog: Its Evolution, Behaviour and Interactions with People by James Serpell on page 19, and page 196
- The Domestic Dog: Its Evolution, Behaviour and Interactions with People by James Serpell on page 19, and page 196
- Animals and Human Society: Changing Perspectives by Aubrey Manning on page 35
- Animals, Disease and Human Society: Human-animal Relations and the Rise of Veterinary Medicine (Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society) by Joanna Swabe in Back Matter
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