All over the world, plant domestication is continually being carried out by local communities to support their needs for food, fibre, medicine, building materials, etc. Using participatory rapid appraisal approach, 150 households were surveyed in 5 villages selected in five ethnic groups of Benin, to investigate the local communities' motivations for plant domestication and the contributions of...

Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) is one of the Neolithic founder crops of the early agricultural societies. The circumstances of its domestication and genomic signatures that underlie barley transition from a weed to a crop remain obscure. We explored genomic variation in a diversity set of 433 wild and domesticated barley accessions using targeted re-sequencing that generated a genome-wide panel of...

The development of agricultural societies, one of the most transformative events in human and ecological history, was made possible by plant and animal domestication. Plant domestication began 12,000-10,000 y ago in a number of major world areas, including the New World tropics, Southwest Asia, and China, during a period of profound global environmental perturbations as the Pleistocene epoch en...

Although there is little doubt that the domestication of mammals was instrumental for the modernization of human societies, even basic features of the path towards domestication remain largely unresolved for many species. Reindeer are considered to be in the early phase of domestication with wild and domestic herds still coexisting widely across Eurasia. This provides a unique model system for ...

This article proposes an extension to domestication theory by introducing the concept of collaborative domestication, which we define as ongoing mutual influence and interdependence technology users in specific interactional contexts. arose from our investigation how patients integrate healthcare-related video consultations into their daily lives. In Denmark, Covid-19 pandemic has expedited imp...

The domestication of diverse grain crops from wild grasses was a result of artificial selection for a suite of overlapping traits producing changes referred to in aggregate as 'domestication syndrome'. Parallel phenotypic change can be accomplished by either selection on orthologous genes or selection on non-orthologous genes with parallel phenotypic effects. To determine how often artificial s...

Beer is one of the oldest alcoholic beverages and is produced by the fermentation of sugars derived from starches present in cereal grains. Contrary to lager beers, made by bottom-fermenting strains of Saccharomyces pastorianus, a hybrid yeast, ale beers are closer to the ancient beer type and are fermented by S. cerevisiae, a top-fermenting yeast. Here, we use population genomics to investigat...

14 Dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) were domesticated from gray wolves between 20-40kya in 15 Eurasia, yet details surrounding the process of domestication remain unclear. The vast array of 16 phenotypes exhibited by dogs mirror numerous other domesticated animal species, a 17 phenomenon known as the Domestication Syndrome. Here, we use signatures persisting in the 18 dog genome to identify genes ...

14 Dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) were domesticated from gray wolves between 20-40kya in 15 Eurasia, yet details surrounding the process of domestication remain unclear. The vast array of 16 phenotypes exhibited by dogs mirror numerous other domesticated animal species, a 17 phenomenon known as the Domestication Syndrome. Here, we use signatures persisting in the 18 dog genome to identify genes ...