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Brain size reduction in dogs was already established at least by the Late Neolithic of western Europe, 5,000 years ago
Pré-Publication, Document De Travail Année : 2025 Brain size reduction in dogs was already established at least by the Late Neolithic of western Europe, 5,000 years ago Fichier principal PrehistoricDogBrainSize_Bioarchiv_2025.pdf (1.01 Mo) Télécharger le fichier hal-05450113 , version 1 (09-01-2026) Thomas Cucchi, Lucile-Morgane Hays, Alessio Veneziano, Margot Michaud, Colline Brassard, et al..
Accommodation of Dental Variations During Jaw Growth in Ungulate Mammals
1 Introduction Among vertebrates, mammals stand out with the dual nature of their specialized masticatory apparatus (Luo 2007; Ungar 2010; Berkovitz and Shellis 2018; Martin and Koenigswald 2021). On one hand, the specific nature of mammalian teeth lies in their simple mode of replacement (i.e., only two sets of teeth, the permanent replacing the deciduous ones) and their limited number in the jaw, which are tightly associated to a determinate skull growth (Luo et al. 2004; Kemp 2005).
Cats domesticated humans to get our mice, archaeologists prove
High up on the list of ecologically invasive mammals are the cat, the rat and the house mouse. At least the felines grew on us, but the rodents are another story. Now a vast international team has cast its scientific searchlight on the burning question of where the house mouse came from anyway, when, how it spread, and why.
Cats domesticated humans to get our mice, archaeologists prove
High up on the list of ecologically invasive mammals are the cat, the rat and the house mouse. At least the felines grew on us, but the rodents are another story. Now a vast international team has cast its scientific searchlight on the burning question of where the house mouse came from anyway, when, how it spread, and why.
Tracking the Near Eastern origins and European dispersal of the western house mouse
Abstract The house mouse (Mus musculus) represents the extreme of globalization of invasive mammals. However, the timing and basis of its origin and early phases of dispersal remain poorly documented. To track its synanthropisation and subsequent invasive spread during the develoment of complex human societies, we analyzed 829 Mus specimens from 43 archaeological contexts in Southwestern Asia and Southeastern Europe, between 40,000 and 3,000 cal.
Earliest “Domestic” Cats in China Identified as Leopard Cat (Prionailurus bengalensis)
Citation: Vigne J-D, Evin A, Cucchi T, Dai L, Yu C, Hu S, et al. (2016) Earliest “Domestic” Cats in China Identified as Leopard Cat (Prionailurus bengalensis). PLoS ONE 11(1): e0147295. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0147295 Copyright: © 2016 Vigne et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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