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    Domesticated : evolution in a man-made world / Richard C. Francis.

    By: Francis, Richard C, 1953-Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]Description: ix, 484 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780393353037; 0393353036; 9780393064605; 0393064603Subject(s): Domestic animals -- History | Animals and civilization | Animals and civilization | Domestic animalsGenre/Form: History.DDC classification: 636 LOC classification: SF41 | .F65 2015
    Contents:
    House fox -- Dogs -- Cats -- Other predators -- Evolutionary interlude -- Pigs -- Cattle -- Sheep and goats -- Reindeer -- Camels -- Horses -- Rodents -- Humans: part I. Evolution -- Humans: part II. Sociality -- The Anthropocene -- Epilogue -- Appendices : From the modern synthesis to an extended synthesis? -- Genomics and the tree of life -- From landraces to breeds -- What's in a gait -- Horse evolution -- Genealogy of horse breeds -- The epigenetic dimension -- Evolutionary biology, evolutionary anthropology, and evolutionary psychology -- The control of fire and its consequences.
    House fox -- Dogs -- Cats -- Other predators -- Evolutionary interlude -- Pigs -- Cattle -- Sheep and goats -- Reindeer -- Camels -- Horses -- Rodents -- Humans: part I. Evolution -- Humans: part II. Sociality -- The Anthropocene -- Epilogue -- Appendices: Appendix A to chapter 5: From the modern synthesis to an extended synthesis? ; Appendix B to chapter 5: Genomics and the tree of life ; Appendix to chapter 7: From landraces to breeds ; Appendix to chapter 10: What's in a gait ; Appendix A to chapter 11: Horse evolution ; Appendix B to chapter 11: Genealogy of horse breeds ; Appendix to chapter 12: The epigenetic dimension ; Appendix to chapter 14: Evolutionary biology, evolutionary anthropology, and evolutionary psychology ; Appendix to chapter 15: The control of fire and its consequences.
    Summary: Draws on history, archaeology, anthropology, and twenty-first-century ideas in biology to explain domestication as an evolutionary process.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    House fox -- Dogs -- Cats -- Other predators -- Evolutionary interlude -- Pigs -- Cattle -- Sheep and goats -- Reindeer -- Camels -- Horses -- Rodents -- Humans: part I. Evolution -- Humans: part II. Sociality -- The Anthropocene -- Epilogue -- Appendices : From the modern synthesis to an extended synthesis? -- Genomics and the tree of life -- From landraces to breeds -- What's in a gait -- Horse evolution -- Genealogy of horse breeds -- The epigenetic dimension -- Evolutionary biology, evolutionary anthropology, and evolutionary psychology -- The control of fire and its consequences.

    House fox -- Dogs -- Cats -- Other predators -- Evolutionary interlude -- Pigs -- Cattle -- Sheep and goats -- Reindeer -- Camels -- Horses -- Rodents -- Humans: part I. Evolution -- Humans: part II. Sociality -- The Anthropocene -- Epilogue -- Appendices: Appendix A to chapter 5: From the modern synthesis to an extended synthesis? ; Appendix B to chapter 5: Genomics and the tree of life ; Appendix to chapter 7: From landraces to breeds ; Appendix to chapter 10: What's in a gait ; Appendix A to chapter 11: Horse evolution ; Appendix B to chapter 11: Genealogy of horse breeds ; Appendix to chapter 12: The epigenetic dimension ; Appendix to chapter 14: Evolutionary biology, evolutionary anthropology, and evolutionary psychology ; Appendix to chapter 15: The control of fire and its consequences.

    Draws on history, archaeology, anthropology, and twenty-first-century ideas in biology to explain domestication as an evolutionary process.

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