From the first dogs to farm animals and beyond, the journey of domestication reshaped both human life and the animal kingdom.

Last fall, a study of raccoons found that these city-dwelling trash pandas are beginning to look different than their rural ...

Though dogs are so close genetically to wolves that many taxonomists consider them to be a subspecies, most people wouldn’t let a wolf lick their hand as readily as a Shih Tzu. When animals are ...

Maize (Zea mays L.) plays an important role in global food security. During 9,000 years of maize domestication and breeding, ...

"Normally you think of domestication as something that happens at the hands of humans," said Brian Hare, a Duke University evolutionary anthropologist and co-author of a bonobo research review ...