Domestication

Domestication is a multi-generational mutualistic relationship between humans and other organisms, in which humans took over control and care to obtain a steady supply of resources including food. The process was gradual and geographically diffuse, based on trial and error.

Dogs and sheep were among the first animals to be domesticated, at least 15,000 and 11,000 years ago respectively.^[1]

Rice was domesticated in China, some 13,500 to 8,200 years ago.^[2]

The first animal to be domesticated was the dog, as a commensal, at least 15,000 years ago. Other animals including goat, sheep, and cow were domesticated starting around 11,000 years ago. Among birds, the chicken was domesticated in East Asia, seemingly for cockfighting, some 7,000 years ago. The horse came under domestication around 5,500 years ago in central Asia as a working animal. Among invertebrates, the silkworm and the western honey bee were domesticated over 5,000 years ago for silk and honey, respectively.

The domestication of plants began around 13,000–11,000 years ago with cereals such as wheat and barley in the Middle East, alongside crops such as lentil, pea, chickpea, and flax. Rice was first cultivated in China some 13,500 to 8,200 years ago. Beginning around 10,000 years ago, Indigenous peoples in the Americas began to cultivate peanuts, squash, maize, potatoes, cotton, and cassava. In Africa, crops such as sorghum were domesticated. Agriculture developed in some 13 centres around the world, domesticating different crops and animals.

Domestication affected genes for behavior in animals, making them less aggressive. In plants, domestication affected genes for morphology, such as increasing seed size and stopping the shattering of seed-heads such as in wheat. Such changes both make domesticated organisms easier to handle, and reduce their ability to survive in the wild.

Definitions

Domestication (not to be confused with the taming of an individual animal^[3][4][5]), is from the Latin domesticus, 'belonging to the house'.^[6] The term remained loosely defined until the 21st century, when the American archaeologist Melinda A. Zeder defined it as a long-term relationship in which humans take over control and care of another organism to gain a predictable supply of a resource, resulting in mutual benefits. She noted further that it is not synonymous with agriculture, since agriculture depends on domesticated organisms, but does not automatically result from domestication.^[7][8][9]

Domestication syndrome is the suite of phenotypic traits which arose during the initial domestication process, and which distinguish crops from their wild ancestors.^[10][11] It can also mean a set of differences now observed in domesticated animals, not necessarily reflecting the initial domestication process. The changes include increased docility and tameness, coat coloration, reductions in tooth size, craniofacial morphology, ear and tail form (e.g., floppy ears), estrus cycles, levels of adrenocorticotropic hormone and neurotransmitters, prolongations in juvenile behavior, and reductions in brain size and of particular brain regions.^[12]

Cause and timing

Further information: Neolithic transition

The domestication of animals and plants was triggered by the climatic and environmental changes that occurred after the peak of the Last Glacial Maximum and which continue to this present day. These changes made obtaining food by hunting and gathering difficult.^[13] The first animal to be domesticated was the dog at least 15,000 years ago.^[1] The Younger Dryas 12,900 years ago was a period of intense cold and aridity that put pressure on humans to intensify their foraging strategies but did not favour agriculture. By the beginning of the Holocene 11,700 years ago, a warmer climate and increasing human populations led to small-scale animal and plant domestication, and an increased supply of food.^[14]

Timeline of some major domestication events

Event	Centre of origin	Purpose	Date/years ago
Foraging for wild grains	Asia	Food	> 23,000^[15]
Dog	Eurasia	Commensal	> 15,000^[1]
Rice	China	Food	13,500–8,200^[2]
Wheat, Barley	Near East	Food	13,000–11,000^[15]
Flax	Near East	Textiles	13,000–11,000^[16]
Goat, Sheep, Pig, Cow	Near East, South Asia	Food	11,000–10,000^[1]
Chicken	East Asia	Cockfighting	7,000^[17]
Horse	Central Asia	Draft, riding	5,500^[1]

The appearance of the domestic dog in the archaeological record, at least 15,000 years ago, was followed by domestication of livestock and of crops such as wheat and barley, the invention of agriculture, and the transition of humans from foraging to farming in different places and times across the planet.^{[1][18][19][20]} For instance, small-scale trial cultivation of cereals began some 28,000 years ago at the Ohalo II site in Israel.^[21]

In the Fertile Crescent 11,000–10,000 years ago, zooarchaeology indicates that goats, pigs, sheep, and taurine cattle were the first livestock to be domesticated. Two thousand years later, humped zebu cattle were domesticated in what is today Baluchistan in Pakistan. In East Asia 8,000 years ago, pigs were domesticated from wild boar genetically different from those found in the Fertile Crescent.^[1] The cat was domesticated in the Fertile Crescent, perhaps 10,000 years ago,^[22] from European wildcats, possibly to control rodents that were damaging stored food.^[23]

 

Centres of origin and spread of agriculture in the Neolithic revolution as understood in 2003^[24]

Animals

Desirable traits

Further information: Domestication of vertebrates

 

Domesticated animals tend to be smaller and less aggressive than their wild counterparts; many have other traits like shorter muzzles.^[25] Skulls of grey wolf (left), chihuahua dog (right)

The domestication of animals is the relationship between animals and humans who have influence on their care and reproduction.^[7] In his 1868 book The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Charles Darwin recognized the small number of traits that made domestic species different from their wild ancestors. He was also the first to recognize the difference between conscious selective breeding in which humans directly select for desirable traits, and unconscious selection in which traits evolve as a by-product of natural selection or from selection on other traits.^[26][27][28]

There is a difference between domestic and wild populations; some of these differences constitute the domestication syndrome, traits presumed essential in the early stages of domestication, while others represent later improvement traits.^[10][29][30] Domesticated animals tend to be smaller and less aggressive than their wild counterparts; other common traits are floppy ears, a smaller brain, and a shorter muzzle.^[25] Domestication traits are generally fixed within all domesticates, and were selected during the initial episode of domestication of that animal or plant, whereas improvement traits are present only in a proportion of domesticates, though they may be fixed in individual breeds or regional populations.^[29][30][31]

Certain animal species, and certain individuals within those species, make better candidates for domestication because of their behavioral characteristics:^{[32][33][34][35]}

1. The size and organization of their social structure^[32]
2. The availability and the degree of selectivity in their choice of mates^[32]
3. The ease and speed with which the parents bond with their young, and the maturity and mobility of the young at birth^[32]
4. The degree of flexibility in diet and habitat tolerance^[32]
5. Responses to humans and new environments, including reduced flight response and reactivity to external stimuli.^[32]

Mammals

Further information: List of domesticated animals

 

While dogs were commensals, and sheep were kept for food, camels, like horses and donkeys, were domesticated as working animals.^[32]

The beginnings of animal domestication involved a protracted coevolutionary process with multiple stages along different pathways. There are three proposed major pathways that most animal domesticates followed into domestication:^[32][30][36]

1. commensals, adapted to a human niche (e.g., dogs, cats, possibly pigs)^[32]
2. prey animals sought for food (e.g., sheep, goats, cattle, water buffalo, yak, pig, reindeer, llama and alpaca)^[32]
3. animals targeted for draft and riding (e.g., horse, donkey, camel).^[32]

Humans did not intend to domesticate animals from either the commensal or prey pathways, or at least they did not envision a domesticated animal would result from it. In both of those cases, humans became entangled with these species as the relationship between them intensified, and humans' role in their survival and reproduction led gradually to formalised animal husbandry.^[30] Although the directed pathway for draft and riding animals proceeded from capture to taming, the other two pathways are not as goal-oriented, and archaeological records suggest that they took place over much longer time frames.^[37]

Unlike other domestic species selected primarily for production-related traits, dogs were initially selected for their behaviors.^[9][38] The dog was domesticated long before other animals,^[39][40] becoming established across Eurasia before the end of the Late Pleistocene era, well before agriculture.^[39]

The archaeological and genetic data suggest that long-term bidirectional gene flow between wild and domestic stocks – such as in donkeys, horses, New and Old World camelids, goats, sheep, and pigs – was common. ^[30][36] Human selection for domestic traits likely counteracted the homogenizing effect of gene flow from wild boars into pigs, and created domestication islands in the genome. The same process may apply to other domesticated animals. ^[41][42]

The 2023 parasite-mediated domestication hypothesis suggests that endoparasites such as helminths and protozoa could have mediated the domestication of mammals. Domestication involves taming, which has an endocrine component; and parasites can modify endocrine activity and microRNAs. Genes for resistance to parasites might be linked to those for the domestication syndrome; it is predicted that domestic animals are less resistant to parasites than their wild relatives.^[43][44]

Birds

Main articles: Poultry and Aviculture

 

Cockfight in Tamil Nadu, 2011

 

Red junglefowl of Southeast Asia

The chicken was domesticated from the red junglefowl, apparently for cockfighting, some 7,000 years ago.^[17]

Domesticated birds principally mean poultry, raised for meat and eggs:^[45] some Galliformes (chicken, turkey, guineafowl) and Anseriformes (waterfowl: ducks, geese, and swans). Also widely domesticated are cagebirds such as songbirds and parrots; these are kept both for pleasure and for use in research.^[46] The domestic pigeon has been used both for food and as a means of communication between far-flung places through the exploitation of the pigeon's homing instinct; research suggests it was domesticated as early as 10,000 years ago.^[47] Chicken fossils in China have been dated to 7,400 years ago. The chicken's wild ancestor is Gallus gallus, the red junglefowl of Southeast Asia. The species appears to have been kept initially for cockfighting rather than for food.^[17]

Invertebrates

Further information: Domestication of bees, Beekeeping, and Sericulture

Two insects, the silkworm and the western honey bee, have been domesticated for over 5,000 years, often for commercial use. The silkworm is raised for the silk threads wound around its pupal cocoon; the western honey bee, for honey, and, from the 20th century, for pollination of crops.^[48][49]

Several other invertebrates have been domesticated, both terrestrial and aquatic, including some such as Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies and the freshwater cnidarian Hydra for research into genetics and physiology. Few have a long history of domestication. Most are used for food or other products such as shellac and cochineal. The phyla involved are Cnidaria, Platyhelminthes (for biological pest control), Annelida, Mollusca, Arthropoda (marine crustaceans as well as insects and spiders), and Echinodermata. While many marine molluscs are used for food, only a few have been domesticated, including squid, cuttlefish and octopus, all used in research on behaviour and neurology. Terrestrial snails in the genera Helix are raised for food. Several parasitic or parasitoidal insects including the fly Eucelatoria, the beetle Chrysolina, and the wasp Aphytis are raised for biological control. Conscious or unconscious artificial selection has many effects on species under domestication; variability can readily be lost by inbreeding, selection against undesired traits, or genetic drift, while in Drosophila, variability in eclosion time (when adults emerge) has increased.^[50]

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  A honey hunter in a cave painting at Cuevas de la Araña, Spain, c. 8,000–6,000 BC
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  Sericulturalists preparing silkworms for spinning of the silk
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  The lac bug Kerria lacca has been kept for shellac resin.
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  Snails being sold as food

Plants

Further information: History of agriculture and List of domesticated plants

Humans foraged for wild cereals, seeds and nuts thousands of years before they were domesticated; wild wheat and barley, for example, were gathered in the Levant at least 23,000 years ago.^[51][15] Neolithic societies in West Asia first began to cultivate and then domesticate some of these plants around 13,000 to 11,000 years ago.^[15] The founder crops of the West Asian Neolithic included cereals (emmer, einkorn wheat, barley), pulses (lentil, pea, chickpea, bitter vetch), and flax.^[16][52] Other plants were independently domesticated in 13 centers of origin (subdivided into 24 areas) of the Americas, Africa, and Asia (the Middle East, South Asia, the Far East, and New Guinea and Wallacea); in some thirteen of these regions people began to cultivate grasses and grains.^[53][54] Rice was first cultivated in East Asia.^[2][55] Sorghum was widely cultivated in sub-Saharan Africa,^[56] while peanuts,^[57] squash,^[57][58] cotton, ^[57] maize,^[59] potatoes,^[60] and cassava^[61] were domesticated in the Americas.^[57]

Continued domestication was gradual and geographically diffuse – happening in many small steps and spread over a wide area – on the evidence of both archaeology and genetics.^[62] It was a process of intermittent trial and error, and often resulted in diverging traits and characteristics.^[63]

Whereas domestication of animals impacted most on the genes that controlled behavior, that of plants impacted most on the genes that controlled morphology (seed size, plant architecture, dispersal mechanisms) and physiology (timing of germination or ripening),^[32][19] as in the domestication of wheat. Wild wheat shatters and falls to the ground to reseed itself when ripe, but domesticated wheat stays on the stem for easier harvesting. This change was possible because of a random mutation in the wild populations at the beginning of wheat's cultivation. Wheat with this mutation was harvested more frequently and became the seed for the next crop. Therefore, without realizing, early farmers selected for this mutation. The result is domesticated wheat, which relies on farmers for its reproduction and dissemination.^[15]

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  Farmers with wheat and cattle – Ancient Egyptian art 3,400 years ago
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  Wild wheat ears shatter when ripe, but domesticated wheat has to be threshed and winnowed (as shown) to release and separate the grain. Photograph by Harold Weston, Iran, 1920s

Differences from wild plants

Main article: Domestication syndrome § In plants

 

Einkorn wheat shatters into individual spikelets, making harvesting difficult. Domesticated cereals do not shatter.^[64][65]

Domesticated plants differ from their wild relatives in many ways, including

• lack of shattering such as of cereal ears (ripe heads),^[15] loss of fruit abscission^[65]
• less efficient breeding system (e.g. without normal pollinating organs, making human intervention a requirement), larger seeds with lower success in the wild,^[15] or even sterility (e.g. seedless fruits) and therefore only vegetative reproduction^[66][67]
• better palatability (e.g. higher sugar content, reduced bitterness), better smell, and lower toxicity^[68][69]
• edible part larger, e.g. cereal grains^[70] or fruits^[65]
• edible part more easily separated from non-edible part^[70]
• increased number of fruits or grains^[65]
• altered colour, taste, and texture^[65]
• daylength independence^[65]
• determinate growth^[65]
• reduced or no vernalization^[65]
• less seed dormancy.^[65]

Plant defences against herbivory, such as thorns, spines, and prickles, poison, protective coverings and sturdiness, may have been reduced in domesticated plants. This would make them more likely to be eaten by herbivores unless protected by humans, but there is only weak support for most of this.^[68] Farmers did select for reduced bitterness and lower toxicity, and for food quality, which likely increased crop palatability to herbivores as to humans.^[68] However survey of 29 plant domestications found that crops were as well-defended against two major insect pests (beet armyworm and green peach aphid) both chemically (e.g. with bitter substances) and morphologically (e.g. with toughness) as their wild ancestors.^[71]

Changes to plant genome

 

Domesticated wheat evolved by repeated hybridization and polyploidy from multiple wild ancestors, increasing the size and evolvability of the genome.^[72]

During domestication, crop species undergo intense artificial selection that alters their genomes, establishing core traits that define them as domesticated, such as increased grain size.^[15][73] Comparison of the coding DNA of chromosome 8 in rice between fragrant and non-fragrant varieties showed that aromatic and fragrant rices, including basmati and jasmine, are derived from an ancestral rice domesticate that suffered a deletion in exon 7 which altered the coding for betaine aldehyde dehydrogenase (BADH2).^[74] Comparison of the potato genome with that of other plants located genes for resistance to potato blight caused by Phytophthora infestans.^[75]

In coconut, genomic analysis of 10 microsatellite loci (of noncoding DNA) found two episodes of domestication based on differences between individuals in the Indian Ocean and those in the Pacific Ocean.^[76][77] The coconut experienced a founder effect, where a small number of individuals with low diversity founded the modern population, permanently losing much of the genetic variation of the wild population.^[76] Population bottlenecks which reduced variation throughout the genome at some later date after domestication are evident in crops such as pearl millet, cotton, common bean and lima bean.^[77]

In wheat, domestication involved repeated hybridization and polyploidy. These steps are large and essentially instantaneous changes to the genome and the epigenome, enabling a rapid evolutionary response to artificial selection. Polyploidy increases the number of chromosomes, bringing new combinations of genes and alleles, which in turn enable further changes such as by chromosomal crossover.^[72]

Impact on plant microbiome

The microbiome, the collection of microorganisms inhabiting the surface and internal tissue of plants, is affected by domestication. This includes changes in microbial species composition^[78][79][80] and diversity.^[81][80] Plant lineage, including speciation, domestication, and breeding, have shaped plant endophytes (phylosymbiosis) in similar patterns as plant genes.^{[80][82][83][84]}

Fungi

Further information: List of domesticated fungi and microorganisms

 

Cultivated mushrooms are widely grown for food.

Several species of fungi have been domesticated for use directly as food, or in fermentation to produce foods and drugs. The cultivated mushroom Agaricus bisporus is widely grown for food.^[85] The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae have been used for thousands of years to ferment beer and wine, and to leaven bread.^[86] Mould fungi including Penicillium are used to mature cheeses and other dairy products, as well as to make drugs such as antibiotics.^[87]

Effects

On domestic animals

Selection of animals for visible traits may have undesired consequences for the genetics of domestic animals.^[88] A side effect of domestication has been zoonotic diseases. For example, cattle have given humanity various viral poxes, measles, and tuberculosis; pigs and ducks have contributed influenza; and horses have brought the rhinoviruses. Many parasites, too, have their origins in domestic animals.^[89] Alongside these, the advent of domestication resulted in denser human populations which provided ripe conditions for pathogens to reproduce, mutate, spread, and eventually find a new host in humans.^[90]

On society

Scholars have expressed widely differing viewpoints on domestication's effects on society. Anarcho-primitivism critiques domestication as destroying the supposed primitive state of harmony with nature in hunter-gatherer societies, and replacing it, possibly violently or by enslavement, with a social hierarchy as property and power emerged.^[91] The dialectal naturalist Murray Bookchin has argued that domestication of animals in turn meant the domestication of humanity, both parties being unavoidably altered by their relationship with each other.^[92] The sociologist David Nibert asserts that the domestication of animals involved violence against animals and damage to the environment. This in turn, he argues, corrupted human ethics, and paved the way for "conquest, extermination, displacement, repression, coerced and enslaved servitude, gender subordination and sexual exploitation, and hunger."^[93]

On diversity

Further information: Sustainable agriculture

 

Industrialized agriculture on land with a simplified ecosystem

Domesticated ecosystems provide food, reduce predator and natural dangers, and promote commerce, but their creation has resulted in habitat alteration or loss, and multiple extinctions commencing in the Late Pleistocene.^[94]

Domestication reduces genetic diversity of the domesticated population, especially of alleles of genes targeted by selection.^[95] One reason is a population bottleneck created by artificially selecting the most desirable individuals to breed from. Most of the domesticated strain is then born from just a few ancestors, creating a situation similar to the founder effect.^[96] Domesticated populations such as of dogs, rice, sunflowers, maize, and horses have an increased mutation load, as expected in a population bottleneck where genetic drift is enhanced by the small population size. Mutations can also be fixed in a population by a selective sweep.^[97][98] Mutational load can be increased by reduced selective pressure against moderately harmful traitswhen reproductive fitness is controlled by human management.^[25] However, there is evidence against a bottleneck in crops, such as barley, maize, and sorghum, where genetic diversity slowly declined rather than showing a rapid initial fall at the point of domestication.^[97][96] Further, genetic diversity of these crops was regularly replenished from the natural population.^[97] Similar evidence exists for horses, pigs, cows, and goats.^[25]

See also

• Anthrozoology
• Domestication theory
• Experimental evolution
• Genetic erosion
• Self-domestication
• Timeline of agriculture and food technology

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External links

• Crop Wild Relative Inventory and Gap Analysis: reliable information source on where and what to conserve ex-situ, for crop genepools of global importance
• Discussion of animal domestication with Jared Diamond
• The Initial Domestication of Cucurbita pepo in the Americas 10,000 Years Ago
• Cattle domestication diagram December 19, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
• Major topic 'domestication': free full-text articles (more than 100 plus reviews) in National Library of Medicine