Modern dogs offer a living record of change shaped by proximity to people. Over time, research shows that brains respond to ...

Rice feeds more than half of the world’s population, but the tiny microbes living on and around rice plants may be just as ...

The research was based on something called the Neural Crest Domestication Syndrome (NCDS) hypothesis, which describes traits ...

On a wind-battered rock in the Baltic Sea, archaeologists have uncovered a puzzle that cuts to the heart of how dogs first ...

Raccoons have faces that perhaps only a mother could love, but their features seem to be changing, biologists report. After combing through nearly 20,000 images of the so-called “trash pandas” ...

Domestic pigeons have surprising cultural significance. They inspired Charles Darwin in his thinking about evolution, ...

"Normally you think of domestication as something that happens at the hands of humans," said Brian Hare, a Duke University evolutionary anthropologist and co-author of a bonobo research review ...

It took humans several millennia to turn feral wolves into man’s best friend. But in just 60 years, scientists did the same with foxes. Because of this, researchers can now see, for the first time, ...

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Raccoons are showing early signs of domestication. CBC Kids News contributor Manny explains why researchers are studying the ...