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The animal connection : a new perspective on what makes us human
Why do humans all over the world take in and nurture other animals? This behavior might seem maladaptive--after all, every mouthful given to another species is one that you cannot eat--but in this heartening new study, acclaimed anthropologist Pat Shipman reveals that our propensity to domesticate and care for other animals is in fact among our species' greatest strengths. For the last 2.6 million years, Shipman explains, humans who coexisted with animals enjoyed definite adaptive and cultural advantages. To illustrate this point, Shipman gives us a tour of the milestones in human civilization--from agriculture to art and even language--and describes how we reached each stage through our unique relationship with other animals. The Animal Connection reaffirms our love of animals as something both innate and distinctly human, revealing that the process of domestication not only changed animals but had a resounding impact on us as well.--From publisher description.
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Le premier plan décennal de l’Agenda 2063 : perspectives d’une décentralisation du cadre de transformation de l’Union Africaine
Following the adoption of the ten-year plan for implementing Agenda 2063, it is necessary to draw lessons from its implementation. The strict supervision of the executive of the African Union demonstrates a mixed appropriation by the Member States and the RECs, which seem to act according to the will of the state actors while Agenda 2063 calls for an inclusive approach. Thus, a decentralization of the AU transformation framework is fundamentally linked to the ratification at the national level of certain legal instruments as well as the operationalization of representing local authorities in the governance of the African Union.
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Le premier plan décennal de l’Agenda 2063 : perspectives d’une décentralisation du cadre de transformation de l’Union Africaine
Following the adoption of the ten-year plan for implementing Agenda 2063, it is necessary to draw lessons from its implementation. The strict supervision of the executive of the African Union demonstrates a mixed appropriation by the Member States and the RECs, which seem to act according to the will of the state actors while Agenda 2063 calls for an inclusive approach. Thus, a decentralization of the AU transformation framework is fundamentally linked to the ratification at the national level of certain legal instruments as well as the operationalization of representing local authorities in the governance of the African Union.
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Living with herds : human-animal coexistence in Mongolia
\"Natasha Fijn examines the process of animal domestication in an ethnographic account of herders and their herd animals in the mountains of Mongolia\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The first domestication : how wolves and humans coevolved
\"Raymond Pierotti and Brandy Fogg change the narrative about how wolves became dogs and, in turn, humanity's best friend. Rather than recount how people mastered and tamed an aggressive, dangerous species, the authors describe coevolution and mutualism. Wolves, particularly ones shunned by their packs, most likely initiated the relationship with Paleolithic humans, forming bonds built on mutually recognized skills and emotional capacity. This interdisciplinary study draws on sources from evolutionary biology as well as tribal and indigenous histories to produce an intelligent, insightful, and often unexpected story of cooperative hunting, wolves protecting camps, and wolf-human companionship\"-- Dust jacket flap.
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Current perspectives and the future of domestication studies
It is difficult to overstate the cultural and biological impacts that the domestication of plants and animals has had on our species. Fundamental questions regarding where, when, and how many times domestication took place have been of primary interest within a wide range of academic disciplines. Within the last two decades, the advent of new archaeological and genetic techniques has revolutionized our understanding of the pattern and process of domestication and agricultural origins that led to our modern way of life. In the spring of 2011, 25 scholars with a central interest in domestication representing the fields of genetics, archaeobotany, zooarchaeology, geoarchaeology, and archaeology met at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center to discuss recent domestication research progress and identify challenges for the future. In this introduction to the resulting Special Feature, we present the state of the art in the field by discussing what is known about the spatial and temporal patterns of domestication, and controversies surrounding the speed, intentionality, and evolutionary aspects of the domestication process. We then highlight three key challenges for future research. We conclude by arguing that although recent progress has been impressive, the next decade will yield even more substantial insights not only into how domestication took place, but also when and where it did, and where and why it did not.
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Archaeological and genetic insights into the origins of domesticated rice
Rice (Oryza sativa) is one of the most important cereal grains in the world today and serves as a staple food source for more than half of the world’s population. Research into when, where, and how rice was brought into cultivation and eventually domesticated, along with its development into a staple food source, is thus essential. These questions have been a point of nearly continuous research in both archaeology and genetics, and new information has continually come to light as theory, data acquisition, and analytical techniques have advanced over time. Here, we review the broad history of our scientific understanding of the rice domestication process from both an archaeological and genetic perspective and examine in detail the information that has come to light in both of these fields in the last 10 y. Current findings from genetics and archaeology are consistent with the domestication of O. sativa japonica in the Yangtze River valley of southern China. Interestingly, although it appears rice was cultivated in the area by as early 8000 BP, the key domestication trait of nonshattering was not fixed for another 1,000 y or perhaps longer. Rice was also cultivated in India as early as 5000 BP, but the domesticated indica subspecies currently appears to be a product of the introgression of favorable alleles from japonica . These findings are reshaping our understanding of rice domestication and also have implications for understanding the complex evolutionary process of plant domestication.
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