According to a study published in Science, researchers have used phytolith analysis and other methods to reveal the continuous evolutionary history of rice from wild to domesticated over an ...

The origins of how dogs became man's best friend across large swaths of the globe are becoming more clear. Dogs may have been widely distributed throughout western Eurasia at least 14,200 years ago, ...

In his new book, the Harvard professor of anthropology, a former colleague of Jane Goodall, reflects on humans’ complex ...

The bond runs deep.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Domesticated horses are ubiquitous enough in real life and fictional worlds for it to seem like they’ve always just been there, in ...

Scientists have long sought an indisputable link showing when humans first domesticated dogs, steering a few receptive gray wolves' descendants toward lives as lapdogs. The origins of their "domestic ...

Researchers suggest a process by which the timid junglefowl from the rain forest could have become today's domesticated chicken. When the scientists selectively bred the junglefowl with least fear of ...