After centuries of sustained effort, zebras remain evidence that domestication depends less on human ambition than on evolutionary compatibility. Human history is often framed as a steady expansion of ...

New research led by the University of Oxford indicates that human domestication of crops can alter the communities of microorganisms that are associated with plants. Intriguingly, independent ...

City-dwelling raccoons are showing early signs of domestication, a new study finds. Using photos uploaded to the citizen science platform iNaturalist, researchers found that raccoons in urban ...

In the 19th century, Charles Darwin was one of the first to notice something interesting about domesticated animals: different species often developed similar changes when compared to their ancient ...