IF YOU can recite you’re already familiar with most . But have you ever wondered why that list has stayed the same for centuries?
Charles Darwin thought the process of domestication was “insensibly slow”. Hard-to-tame species backed that perception, but it will change once we find domestication’s genetic basis (see “The secret to taming animals”). So what should MacDonald farm next? Tame African buffalo, perhaps? Or has domestication gone far enough?
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