Description |
ix, 484 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
House fox -- Dogs -- Cats -- Other predators -- Evolutionary interlude -- Pigs -- Cattle -- Sheep and goats -- Reindeer -- Camels -- Horses -- Rodents -- Humans - part I: Evolution -- Humans - part II: Sociality -- The Anthropocene. |
Summary |
Draws on history, archaeology, anthropology, and twenty-first-century ideas in biology to explain domestication as an evolutionary process |
Subject(S) |
Domestic animals -- History.
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Animals and civilization.
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Added Title |
Evolution in a man-made world |
ISBN |
9780393064605 (hardcover) |
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0393064603 (hardcover) |
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