Domestication

diet, growth rate, size, disposition, panic response, breed in captivity, social hierarchy

self-domestication led to human involvement

SSITE: Self-domestication Strict captivity Intentional breeding Trait standardization Eliminate wild species (genes)

companionship, dogs with jobs

size, highly gregarious (esp. sheep), wide utilization of feed resources, and yielded a variety of useful products

human involvement

very useful, yielded useful products, key to agrarian revolution, source of wealth, of social importance due to language development, and held in sacred status by many cultures

Human involvement

swine were pests, reproduced rapidly, so they were hunted for population control, and then discovered as useful sources of meat

Human involvement, not good herding animals, but content with housing/pen arrangement

very useful, secondary only to cattle. Used for meat and leather, in warfare, as draft animals, and for recreational use

human involvement

very useful for meat, milk, leather, draft, transportation, fiber, and ask pack animals

companionship, and as pest control

Self-domestication beginning with cats coming up and eating human grains, and then human involvement from there

meat, eggs, feathers

human involvement