Sentence examples for rapid domestication from inspiring English sources
The rapid domestication of the three cross-pollinated grains, rye, maize and pearl-millet, appears to contradict this hypothesis.
Perennial herbs were too small to be efficiently propagated by cuttings, and the association between longevity, allogamy and genetic load made rapid domestication by sexual cycles unlikely.
As most domestic species now number millions worldwide, their population histories must involve rapid expansions since domestication.
Thus, the accumulation and fixation of mildly deleterious alleles, particularly on larger neurogenetic genes (see below), and subsequent inbreeding depression [ 41, 42] may promote both the rapid nature of domestication and its associated convergence of common behavioral traits.
The star-like phylogeny of three large clades (A, B, and C) is indicative of such rapid expansion following domestications [ 27].
The last and most likely explanation for the rapid fitness decline is domestication selection.
There, as in southwest Asia, rapid climate change favored domestication of more annual forms.
While domestication represents rapid change in evolutionary terms, in cereals the transition in the suite of characters that changed wild populations into domesticated crops took place over many centuries or millennia.
There are therefore at least 3 clearly identifiable periods in the evolutionary history of extant domestic dogs, each characterized by different environmental and selective circumstances: predomesticated wolf ancestry, early domestication, and rapid artificially selected diversification.
By studying plasticity in other organisms which have undergone longer, but still known, generations of domestication, relatively rapid evolutionary changes (or a lack thereof) in plasticity may be found.
