Evolution is often perceived as an incredibly slow, natural process driven by environmental pressures over millennia. That characterization certainly holds true, but humans have also repeatedly ...

A large-scale population genomic study has shed new light on the evolutionary and domestication history of the button ...

Since the Middle Ages, the size of wild and domestic animals has largely been shaped by human selection: domestic animals are increasingly larger; wild animals increasingly smaller. During the 7,000 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lyudmila Trut with one of her domesticated foxes Lyudmila Trut, who has died aged 90, was a Soviet scientist and lead researcher ...

Dogs are not our nearest relatives in the animal kingdom, but they are our oldest friends. Scientific evidence suggests that, at least 10,000 years ago, early humans gradually domesticated wild dogs, ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...