Domestication of vertebrates
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The domestication of vertebrates is the mutual relationship between vertebrate animals, including birds and mammals, and the humans who influence their care and reproduction.
Dogs and sheep were among the first animals to be domesticated.
Traits used to define the animal domestication syndrome
Evolution of temperatures in the postglacial period, after the Last Glacial Maximum, showing very low temperatures for the most part of the Younger Dryas, rapidly rising afterwards to reach the level of the warm Holocene, based on Greenland ice cores.
Hereford cattle, domesticated for beef production
Cattle
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Cattle are large, domesticated, bovid ungulates widely kept as livestock. They are prominent modern members of the subfamily Bovinae and the most widespread species of the genus Bos.
Domestication of vertebrates
…becoming the ancestors of the present day dingo. In the Fertile Crescent 10,000-11,000 years ago, zooarchaeology indicates that goats, pigs, sheep, and taurine cattle were the first livestock to be domesticated. Archaeologists working in Cyprus found an approximately 9500 year old burial ground containing an adult…
Cow Oeschinensee Slaunger 2009 07 07
lossy page 1 GLW 2 global distributions of a cattle.tif
Skeleton
Anatomical model, showing the large 4-chambered stomach