Grapes have long played a crucial role in human society, both modern and ancient. Especially when it comes to the production of wine, grapes have proved to be a valuable and popular crop. It was so ...

Researchers at the University of Southampton have proposed that some wild plant species possess certain attributes which make ...

Archaeologist Xinyi Liu at Washington University in St. Louis teamed up with Martin Jones of the University of Cambridge to write a new paper for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...

Borrowing a page from what we know about animal behavior, archaeologists say that we should reassess our understanding of the process of plant domestication. The story of how ancient wolves came to ...

In the largest study of its kind, scientists have accurately documented the massive change in animal morphology over the last 1,000 years, with domesticated animals growing larger across the board and ...

The three staple crops dominating modern diets – corn, rice and wheat – are familiar to Americans. However, fourth place is held by a dark horse: cassava. Over the course of millennia, Indigenous ...

Many domestic animals can prosper in the wild despite having adapted to thousands of years in captivity. This phenomenon offers an interesting window into the process of adaptation to natural ...

When a wild orangutan in Sumatra recently suffered a facial wound, apparently after fighting with another male, he did something that caught the attention of the scientists observing him. The animal ...

The Big Ideas: What Is History? Through the ages, human survival has depended on our ability to cultivate and preserve plant diversity. By Cary Fowler Cary Fowler is an agriculturalist and a founder ...

It is not farfetched to say that dogs and people were made for each other, although how the partnership between these two vastly different species came about remains an enduring historical mystery. It ...

Analysis of ancient human and animal remains suggests that precolonial peoples in the Bolivian Amazon likely fed ducks more than 1,000 years ago, a study reports. The research, published in the ...

“Feral” is a cloudy term, one most of us have heard in connection with animals that aren’t domestic but aren’t wild either. So what exactly is a feral animal? It's one that lives in the wild “but was ...