How Did People Domesticate Animals? An Interview with Professor Greger Larson

Tides of History

English - September 17, 2020 09:00 - 58 minutes - 53.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 6K ratings
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The domestication of animals has transformed the way that people eat, clothe themselves, and live over the past 10,000 or so years, but what in the world does "domestication" even mean? How did this happen, and why did people start doing this? I talk with Professor Greger Larson of Oxford University about the genetics of animal domestication and how cutting-edge science is helping us answer these age-old questions.

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