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#domestication — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #domestication, aggregated by home.social.

  1. 🐕🧠 A study of #canine remains shows that the earliest #dogs had #brains comparable in size to ancient #wolves.

    Researchers found that the major reduction in #brain volume happened 5,000 years ago as human societies moved into permanent settlements. The evidence suggests that secondary environmental factors played a larger role in canine evolution than the early stages of living with humans.

    👉 zmescience.com/feature-post/na

    #dogs #biology #evolution #science #archeology #domestication #animals #history #brain #research #nature #paleontology

  2. smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/

    Recent stories about signs of domestication in urban raccoons made me wonder why snout shortening is associated with domestication.

    This article gives a brief account of one possible explanation, the neural crest domestication syndrome hypothesis, and links to a scholarly article on the topic.

    #Raccoons #Domestication #NeuralCrestDomesticationSyndromeHypothesis #Wildlife #Symbiosis #Pets #DomesticAnimals

  3. Digesting Food Studies (the CFS podcast)—Episode 109: Food Waste

    Repurposing leftover Hallowe’en candy as farm animal fodder? It may sound wild, but as you’ll hear in this #podcast, it’s just one odd recommendation within the complex hierarchies of dealing with food waste…

    rss.com/podcasts/digesting-foo

    This episode tackles food waste, an issue as old as #domestication. Food scholar Tammara Soma shares perspectives from “Critical food guidance for tackling food waste in Canada” (Vol. 9 No. 1 of Canadian Food Studies), and PhD student Dante Gbejewoh offers his response to the piece, encouraging listeners to leverage the article’s diagram about #closed-loop #foodsystems. Alexia Moyer sneaks us back to a long-titled #historical #cookbook on household management, including its implications for #gendered labour.

    #DigestingFoodStudies
    #FoodWaste
    #Upcycling
    #Recycling
    #Trash
    #Cookbooks
    #HouseholdManagement
    #HomeEconomics
    #Gender
    #Labour
    #WomensWork
    #CanadianHistory
    #FoodPodcast
    #FoodSystems

    image: David Szanto

  4. ⚠️ Postdoctoral position at @lemoulon : mechanisms of reproductive isolation between crops and their wild relatives ⚠️

    ➡️ Location : @ideev.lab @universite_paris_saclay
    Department : Quantitative Genetics and Evolution

    ➡️ Open and close dates: August 2025 until filled (will begin reviewing applications immediately).

    ➡️ moulon.inrae.fr
    ➡️ ideev.universite-paris-saclay.

    #evolutionarygenomics #domestication #speciation #incompatibilities #plant @maudten #job #postdoc #emploi #postdoctoral #maudtenaillon