Some 12,000 years ago, humans chose to domesticate much of the world that surrounds us. This intervention steered our evolution and the evolution of many plants and animals, transitioning our ...

In our ongoing quest for alternative energy sources, researchers are looking more to plants that grow in the wild for use in biofuels, plants such as switchgrass. However, attempts to "domesticate" ...

Wilderness protected areas get eight billion visitors a year. And that's just on land. Underwater reserves add millions more to the tally. Which, considering these are "protected" areas, seems like an ...

New analyses of bones, teeth, genetics and artifacts suggest it’s time to revise a long-standing hypothesis for how humans domesticated horses. Read from CU expert William Taylor on The Conversation.

Exploradio Origins: Taming the wild marama bean WOSU: Christopher Cullis, the Francis Hobart Herrick Professor of Biology, spoke about his research into domesticating the marama bean, a wild plant ...

The domestication of dogs from gray wolves several thousand years ago required at least one or two severe population bottlenecks. But in the last 300 years, isolating modern dog breeds involved ...

It took at least 3000 years to domesticate the tomato. Now two separate teams in Brazil and China have done it all over again in less than three years – only better in some ways, as the redomesticated ...