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Core questions in domestication research
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Zeder MA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
2015[Mar]; 112
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): 3191-8
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The domestication of plants and animals is a key transition in human history, and
its profound and continuing impacts are the focus of a broad range of
transdisciplinary research spanning the physical, biological, and social
sciences. Three central aspects of domestication that cut across and unify this
diverse array of research perspectives are addressed here. Domestication is
defined as a distinctive coevolutionary, mutualistic relationship between
domesticator and domesticate and distinguished from related but ultimately
different processes of resource management and agriculture. The relative utility
of genetic, phenotypic, plastic, and contextual markers of evolving domesticatory
relationships is discussed. Causal factors are considered, and two leading
explanatory frameworks for initial domestication of plants and animals, one
grounded in optimal foraging theory and the other in niche-construction theory,
are compared.