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Domesticated : Evolution in a Man-Made World, Hardback Book

Domesticated : Evolution in a Man-Made World Hardback

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The wolf evolved into the Pekingese, the wildcat into the tabby cat and the auroch into the milk-producing cow.

This happened through the process called "domestication".

Domesticated creatures have served us well- without them, civilisation as we know it would not exist. Richard C. Francis weaves history, archaeology and anthropology, while seamlessly integrating the most cutting-edge ideas in twenty-first-century biology, to create a fascinating narrative.

Each domesticated species is a case study in evolution, and two key themes emerge: that domestication often results in the retention of juvenile traits and that evolution remains fundamentally a conservative process.

Francis also explores the ways in which these themes apply to human evolution.

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