Scientists from the University of Cambridge have recently managed to solve a long-standing mystery related to the evolution of domestic horses. The team was able to determine that the animals appeared on the steppes of the Ukraine and Russia, as well as in western Kazakhstan.
The origins of domestic horses have been... |
8 May 2012
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Researchers managed recently to discover the origins of a special type of domesticated cactus. They tracked the original plant to the Tehuacan Valley, in Mexico.Ever since humans first managed to domesticate plants, other species of vegetation have been threatened, or brought to the brink of extinction, because of it... |
24 August 2010
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Investigators at the Pennsylvania State University argue in a new paper that our love and compassion for all furry creatures may have had a very important influence on how we evolved, as a species. They say that our pets may have been one of the driving forces that made humans learn language and other hallmarks we no... |
3 August 2010
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Researchers were recently able to use modern genetic processes to determine the primary origin of small dog breeds. These canine companions are a long way away from the wild wolves that became domesticated a long time ago, and learned how to live cooperatively with our ancestors. Smaller dogs, however, share roughly ... |
15 March 2010
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In the old days, many thousands of years ago, the dingos were semi-domesticated human companions. Descended directly from wolves, these dogs lived around villages in Asia, being fed by the humans and sometimes assisting their masters in the hunting game. But, somewhere along the line, more than 4,000 years ago, they ... |
14 December 2009
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When our ancestors learned how to domesticate animals, society took a giant leap forward. Having the ability to get rid of carrying burdens, and transferring the load on animals meant that our forefathers had more energy, free hands, and so on. Their ability to survive and move faster from one place to the other also... |
28 November 2009
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Dogs have been an essential part of human life for the last 15,000 years, when the first specimens were domesticated. Anthropologists and historians underline the fact that our evolution would not have been the same were it not for the protection, hunting, and herding abilities that the canines brought to the “... |
4 August 2009
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According to a new growing consensus in the scientific community, dogs are more close to humans than primates, even though the latter share many of our genes. The researchers who advocate this point of view say that dogs have become closer to us after 10,000 to 20,000 years of common evolution. Over this period of ti... |
27 March 2009
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New scientific research pushes back the date of the first recorded human uses of horses more than 1,000 years. University of Exeter scientist Alan Outram and his team have found in Kazakhstan evidences that the native Botai culture had been using horses as beasts of burden and sources of milk and food for at least 5,... |
6 March 2009
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