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Revisiting biogeography of livestock animal domestication
2019-09-30
Abstract excerpt
Human society relies on four main livestock animals – sheep, goat, pig and cattle, which all were domesticated at nearly the same time and place. Many arguments have been put forward to explain why these animals, place and time were suitable for domestication, but the question – why only these, but not other animals, still does not have a clear answer. Here we offer a biogeographical perspective: we survey global...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 6ab0a180-5471-5b90-8c23-a186f87633bf
- DOI
- 10.1101/786442