There are few things more joyful, if occasionally nerve-wracking, than having a pet in your home. And plenty of people agree.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. From their wolf ancestors to today’s sweet, loyal ...

"The presentations of the second edition of the Harlan Symposium, held September 14-18, 2008, on the campus of the University of California, Davis ..."--Foreword. The local origins of domestication / ...

Not every animal is meant to live alongside humans — some species resist domestication by nature, instinct, and evolution.

Led by Prof. ZHAO Ruilin from the Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, researchers showed how climate dynamics and a key gene for adaptive evolution and domestication jointly ...

A large-scale population genomic study has shed new light on the evolutionary and domestication history of the button mushroom (Agaricus bisporus), one of the most widely cultivated edible fungi in ...

Like wolves that once became dogs, trash pandas appear to be adapting anatomically to life alongside humans, slowly stepping toward domestication. Humans’ ongoing expansion into natural environments ...

This skull once belonged to somebody’s pet, over 33,000 years ago. It’s one of the earliest known examples of the domestication of dogs — and it might actually mean modern dogs aren’t all related to ...

A team of Chinese scientists has unveiled the continuous evolutionary history of rice, tracing its journey from wild to domesticated over an astounding period of 100,000 years. The findings published ...