domestication

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Domestication syndrome - anatomical and morphological changes such as curly tails, floppy ears, depigmentation, smaller brains and reduced facial skeletons - are commonly cited as some of the most salient traits, the study says.

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2025

In 2020, he and several other scientists wrote a paper for the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution called "The History of Farm Foxes Undermines the Animal Domestication Syndrome" that made precisely this point.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2023

But the new report has come up with a surprising twist on the story: Domestication happened twice, on different lineages of the wild grapes.

From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2023

Domestication isn’t one event—it is a continual process, as humans tweak the makeup of the animals they live with.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 15, 2016

In 1867, nearly a decade after the publication of Origin, he began to complete a new manuscript, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, in which he would fully explicate this view of inheritance.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee