Domesticació en animals i evolució

Authors

  • Miguel Pérez-Enciso

Abstract

Domestication is but evolution, only at high pace as a result of artificial selection and adaptation to the new human mediated environment. Although domestication has been considered traditionally as animal exploitation, it has benefited both human and animals, it is symbiosis rather than parasitism. The domestication process is much more complex than anticipated, it has occurred in different locations at several times, it has been a gradual process rather than a clear cut event. As a result, it is not necessarily easy to interpret results that are being produced by large scale modern genomics. One thing is undisput pered: domestication has not wiped out genetic variability, domestic breeds seem to be much more variable than expected a priori.

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Published

2009-04-22