For ages, domestication has been portrayed as a uniquely human accomplishment, where species become domestic only through our deliberate control. This belief is supported by the fact that human ...

Our modern breeds descended from the apex predator in a process of domestication that began tens of thousands of years ago.

Other animals, too, saw similar phenotype changes through the process of domestication. When wild boars were first domesticated in areas of both modern Turkey and China, the farmers who bred them ...

Plant domestication in North America has no single ... Corn itself is descended from a grass called teosinte, the obvious appeal of which is so limited that some researchers once hypothesized ...

That's right. It's made informational videos, like this one called, "Oh, It's Just A Grass Fire." (SOUNDBITE OF VIDEO, "OH, IT'S JUST A GRASS FIRE") UNIDENTIFIED NARRATOR: Should you let yourself ...

Taming was the necessary first step in animal domestication, and it is widely known that some animals are easier to tame than others. But did humans also favor certain wild plants for ...

Outdoor watering accounts for roughly half of total water use in Southern California’s cities and suburbs, and a large portion of that water is sprayed from sprinklers to keep grass green.

A horse domestication hypothesis Over the years, almost every time and place on Earth has been suggested as a possible origin point for horse domestication, from Europe tens of thousands of years ago ...