Farm animals have been part of human life since the beginning of agriculture. Each species plays a unique role in farming ...

Guest Opinion. Altruism is helping without a benefit and sometimes at a risk to one’s self. Animals helping others of their own species makes sense to perpetuate the species or help continue their own ...

From the first dogs to farm animals and beyond, the journey of domestication reshaped both human life and the animal kingdom. It began over 10,000 years ago and spread across continents. Alex Pretti ...

New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted natural mammal communities as profoundly as the Ice Age extinctions. Fossil ...

Clive Phillips has received funding from several not-for-profit groups, including Voiceless and AnimalKind, to help make this book open access. He has previously had funding from several government ...