40: The Domestication of Animals

We're diving into paleo-genomics today with this episode, where Morgan and Emileigh dive into how animals became domesticated. Learn how man's best friend came to be, and the unique way cats entered our lives!    Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/   Join our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory Email us! [email protected] Check us out on TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo Donate to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory   Sources:  MacHugh, David; Larson, Greger; & Orlando, Ludovic. “Taming the Past: Ancient DNA and the Study of Animal Domestication.” (2016). Annual Review of Animal Bioscience, 5: 329-51. doi: 10.11146/annurev-animal-022516-022747 https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-animal-022516-022747 Driscoll, Carlos A.; Macdonald, David W.; & O’Brien, Stephen J. “From wild animals to domestic pets, and evolutionary view of domestication.” (2009). Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 106(1). 9971-9978. doi: 10.1073/pnas.090158106 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2702791/ Wilkins, Adam S., Richard W. Wrangham, and W. Tecumseh Fitch. 2014. “The “Domestication Syndrome” in Mammals: A Unified Explanation Based on Neural Crest Cell Behavior and Genetics.” Genetics, 197 (3): 795-808. doi:10.1534/genetics.114.165423.  https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/12717449/4096361.pdf?sequence=1 McHugo, Gillian P.; Dover, Michael J; & MacHugh, David E. “Unlocking the origins and biology of domestic animals using ancient DNA and paleogenomics.” (2019). BMC Biology, 17(98). doi: 10.1186/s12915-019-0724-7 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6889691/ Driscoll, Carlos A.; Clutton-Brock, Juliet; Kitchener, Andrew C.; & O’Brien, Stephen J. “The Taming of the Cat.” (2009). Scientific American, 300(6), 68-75 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5790555/ Larson, Greger & Fuller, Dorian Q. “The Evolution of Animal Domestication.” (2014). Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 45, 115-36.  doi: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110512-135813 http://www.palaeobarn.com/sites/domestication.org.uk/files/downloads/112.pdf  Pennisi, Elizabeth. “The taming of the pig took some wild turns.” (Aug. 31, 2015).  doi: 10.1126/science.aad1692 https://www.science.org/content/article/taming-pig-took-some-wild-turns Gon III, Samuel M. & Price, Edward O. “Invertebrate Domestication: Behavioral Considerations” (1984). BioScience, 575-579. doi:10.2307/1309600   Sound Credits:   https://freesound.org/people/YleArkisto/  https://freesound.org/people/kvgarlic/  https://freesound.org/people/BiancaBothaPure/