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3 days ago · Domesticated animals tend to be smaller and less aggressive than their wild counterparts; many have other domestication syndrome traits like shorter muzzles. Skulls of grey wolf (left), chihuahua dog (right) The domestication of animals is the relationship between non-human animals and humans who have influence on their care and reproduction.
Perhaps high jumpers, as a class, have relatively light bone structure and that breeding them exclusively may have that unforeseen consequence. This is why variation is a very important part evolution by natural/sexual selection. It's why we have strong immunities and small rates of recessive genes such as down syndrome or albino syndrome.
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5 days ago · Dunning-Kruger effect, in psychology, a cognitive bias whereby people with limited knowledge or competence in a given intellectual or social domain greatly overestimate their own knowledge or competence in that domain relative to objective criteria or to the performance of their peers or of people in general.
4 days ago · What is Alice in Wonderland syndrome? Also known as Todd's syndrome — for English psychiatrist John Todd, who named the condition in 1955 — AIWS is a neurological disorder associated with a set of symptoms that affect how you perceive your body and the world around you.
5 days ago · Numerous oral histories and substantial ethnographic evidence illustrate how plant species, communities, and even landscapes were extensively managed and cared for by ancestral communities in the P...
5 days ago · Both J. regia and J. sigillata appear to have suffered sudden population declines during their domestication, suggesting that the bottleneck scenario of plant domestication may well apply in at least some perennial crop species.
4 days ago · Background Structural variations (SVs) have significant impacts on complex phenotypes by rearranging large amounts of DNA sequence. Results We present a comprehensive SV catalog based on the whole-genome sequence of 1060 pigs (Sus scrofa) representing 101 breeds, covering 9.6% of the pig genome. This catalog includes 42,487 deletions, 37,913 mobile element insertions, 3308 duplications, 1664 ...
