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Phenotype and animal domestication: A study of dental variation between domestic, wild, captive, hybrid and insular Sus scrofa.
BMC evolutionary biology - 4 Feb 2015
Evin Allowen, Dobney Keith, Schafberg Renate, Owen Joseph, Vidarsdottir Una Strand, Larson Greger, Cucchi Thomas
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BACKGROUND: Identifying the phenotypic responses to domestication remains a long-standing and important question for researchers studying its early history. The great diversity in domestic animals and plants that exists today bears testament to the profound changes that domestication has induced in their ancestral wild forms over the last millennia. Domestication is a complex evolutionary process in which wild...
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