Journal article
Storytelling and story testing in domestication
P Gerbault, RG Allaby, N Boivin, A Rudzinski, IM Grimaldi, JC Pires, C Climer Vigueira, K Dobney, KJ Gremillion, L Barton, M Arroyo-Kalin, MD Purugganan, RR De Casas, R Bollongino, J Burger, DQ Fuller, DG Bradley, DJ Balding, PJ Richerson, MTP Gilbert Show all
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | Published : 2014
Abstract
The domestication of plants and animals marks one of the most significant transitions in human, and indeed global, history. Traditionally, study of the domestication process was the exclusive domain of archaeologists and agricultural scientists; today it is an increasingly multidisciplinary enterprise that has come to involve the skills of evolutionary biologists and geneticists. Although the application of new information sources and methodologies has dramatically transformed our ability to study and understand domestication, it has also generated increasingly large and complex datasets, the interpretation of which is not straightforward. In particular, challenges of equifinality, evolution..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This manuscript resulted from a catalysis meeting entitled "Domestication as an Evolutionary Phenomenon: Expanding the Synthesis"that was awarded and hosted by the National Evolutionary Synthesis Centre (National Science Foundation EF-0905606) in 2011. P.G. is funded by Leverhulme Trust; D.G.B. is funded by Science Foundation Ireland (09/IN.1/B2642); A.R. and R.R.d.C. are funded by European Union funding (PITN-GA-2011-289966 "BEAN,"MC-IIF-2011-300026 "TEE-OFF"); M.T.P.G. is funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research Grant 10-081390; and I.M.G. is funded by the European Research Council as part of Grant Agreement 206148 "SEALINKS"(to N. B.).